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Jun 4, 2016 at 16:42 vote accept ddejohn
Jun 2, 2016 at 15:18 answer added ddejohn timeline score: 0
Jun 1, 2016 at 13:01 comment added Samoth blender.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer ;-)
May 31, 2016 at 23:57 comment added user2816 yes , like this. opening the video in vlc reports it's a h264 encoded video.
May 31, 2016 at 23:54 comment added ddejohn Okay, so... there's the output file format, and the output video format? Should I do MPEG, MPEG-4, and h264?
May 31, 2016 at 23:49 comment added user2816 to confuse you even more , h264 is a compression standard, x264 is an implementation of h264 and is the codec, but it's not a container. blender will use the avi container when you set the output format to h264 since .avi is very well supported by most platforms and systems than, for example, MPEG-4 or matroska. and yes you should use .mp4 container if you render large videos.
May 31, 2016 at 23:02 comment added ddejohn I do have enough disk space, but I didn't realize there was a size limit. I'm a little confused though. I know h264 is a codec, but isn't it also a container? In my render settings, it's set for h264 as the container, with h264 encoding. Should I be using MPEG-4 as the container? Or am I going about this all wrong?
May 31, 2016 at 22:20 comment added user2816 do you have enough disk space ? a 30min lossless 60fps video will take a lot of disk space, and by default it will use an .avi container which won't handle >2GB file size, try ticking autosplit output
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