Thanks so much!

Thanks for the kind words, Paul! Happy rendering!

Thanks for the kind words! More to come next week!

The pleasure is mine! Thanks for watching!

Hey! Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! Yeah regular sequencer renders work great if you need something fast! Rendering in 2x rez and downscaling is a great solution that we use often :) Thanks for writing!

its better and faster to render in png? i am new to this. I am assuming rendering a movie file would take ages?

Thank you! I don't think UE4 is quiiiite ready to replace other offline renderers, still a ways to go there, but it's promising. :)

Thanks so much! Definitely more rendering tips to come :)

Thanks so much! Cheers to you!

Thanks so much!

Thanks! The pleasure is mine :)

I've considered this! It's on my list of videos to come. Thanks for your input, I will keep this in mind!

Cheers! Happy to help!

Cheers good sir! Thanks for watching :)

Thanks so much! This made my day :)

Wow thanks so much! I appreciate it! Glad it could help!

@@WilliamFaucher I was wondering if i can ask you a specific question with sequencer and movie render queue please when i render particles with a light render falloff, in the viewport it shows the whole particle system and light fall off on my scene. Sequencer matches this visually in its output. however, when i render out in movie render queue, i get a vertical rectangle cutting off the majority of the particles and light field. i have zero idea what is causing this.

@@faradaysinfinity Hey man! Sorry to hear you've been having issues. Could you send a screenshot in a DM on my instagram? Will be muuuuch easier to help you that way. Hard to know what you mean with just text :)

@@WilliamFaucher hey there is no need to apologize to me! your videos are incredible helpful and this is something fringe! stoked will dm you shortly

¡Muchísimas gracias, lo aprecio!

Hahah thank you!

Thank you!

And here is a video talk about this passes a bit. :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLqKf6-S0rmVh58.html

Haha thanks! I actually just made a video about this yesterday! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdyRa9ZirZPRhX0.html

@@WilliamFaucher awesome! Thank for the reply and keep with the great work!

Thank YOU for watching and for telling me about this tip, even if I already knew about, I really appreciate you taking the the time to help :)

You're very welcome, Andrew! Thanks for watching!

You're very welcome!

Thanks! What happened if I may ask?

@@WilliamFaucher Ever since 4.26 release me and my friends havent been able to render anything like we used to. It will crash 95% of the time even on projects I rendered in 4.25 with the same settings. It worked amazing in 4.25 for me but 4.26 stinks rn for me. Im just gonna wait for like an update or just switch workflows.

@@sharp5112 That's odd? I haven't had any issues on my end at all. If anything 4.26 has been more stable in terms of rendering. What kind of crashes do you get? Do you get any kind of error message? The only issue I've had with 4.26 is sudden drops in framerate from 60+ to 4-5fps for no apparent reason, and then it kicks back to 60+ again after a minute or so.

@@WilliamFaucher yeah me and a couple of my friends have all been experiencing the same d3d crash only in 4.26. For me it seems like in 4.26 UE4 is taking up much more ram than it used to so when I do to render I usually instantly crash. I made a forum post as well and some other dude said he had the same issue with 4.26 only. Ive always had drops in editor framerate even in 4.25 after rendering with the same issue dropping to 5-10 frames. I have tried a lot to find the sole cause of this and right now I can only fix it with turning ray tracing off (same with my friends). I am running a 2080 and i7 9700k with 32gb of ram with the project on a m.2 so I see no reason why I should be crashing at such low resolutions (1920x1080) when I could easily push 16k in 4.25 with no issues.

@@sharp5112 So, the low framerate after rendering is an age-old issue with Unreal. It's been there since the introduction of sequencer in 4.10 (I think?). So nothing new there. The D3D crash is most often related to VRAM, not regular RAM. So If I am not mistaken, the 2080 has 8gb of vram. The fact that it worked fine in 4.25 is weird, so it would seem like 4.26 is putting more strain on vram for some reason. Open your task manager when rendering and keep an eye on your vram levels. You'll see the vram of your GPU spiking and if it goes past 8gb, you're likely to crash. Resolution isn't really the problem here. Do you have Virtual Texture Streaming enabled in your 4.26 project? This may help take some load off your vram.

Thank you! Yeah I figured as much. Even though we don't have 32-bit, it would be nice to have something that works a bit better around the edges of objects. So far it's really not great. Hope UE5 changes things!

Hi there! Thanks for the kind words! I don't have such a video as of yet, no, but something along those lines in on the list and in the works of videos to come! I'm wrapping up a big personal project right now but when I'm done with that, I'll have more time on my hands to dedicate to this channel :)

Thanks for watching!

The process is pretty much exactly the same, minus the console variables, I don't use any anymore :)

@@WilliamFaucherHey William, how do you mean you don't use them anymore? None of them?(Bloom, tonemapper?) or just the Ray Traced related ones? How do you go about this? Set up Lumen for GI/Refl crank up the quality and render? Cheers and thx

@@SuleBandi No point in using bloom or tonemapper cvars, MRQ maxes those out by default. I dont use any cvars for the most part except for screen percentage, or very specific ones for niche situations.

I'll be experimenting with this in the very near-future! Stay tuned :)

I still need to experiment with the console commands, but so far, business as usual! MAYBE removing the Raytracing console commands, but that's about it I think!

Thanks man! What kind of PC do you have? It sounds to me like you're having issues more with premiere than anything else. Have you tried Davinci Resolve? It is free :)

Hi, I have a new generation i7 with 32gb ram, ssd and gtx2070 super. I don’t think it’s the machine, I think I’m not doing the correct export settings. I will try resolve. Thanks.

I guess high quality is a relative term? Do you mean high resolution? Then filesize will depend on the resolution and fileformat. It also depends on how long your shot is. There isn't quite a right answer for you here, sorry! Hope this helped.

Hmmm, the Stencil Layers might be your best bet here!

@@WilliamFaucher The stencil layer method I think has great potential for this! Thanks for pointing me in that direction. It's working well for the most part but an issue that I'm running into is that actors with translucent materials applied to them are still being rendered out. Otherwise it works perfectly and only renders out whatever actor I added to the layer. Do you know if it's possible to have actors with translucent shaders applied, only render out if they're added to the layer? I've linked a couple of screenshots of what I'm seeing if that helps. drive.google.com/file/d/12-WhY73ptJN89v-djyd6cee3yPrahlMZ/view drive.google.com/file/d/1DwqjHKpS7625FVXTBnvpafcmHQhmlXHl/view

I don't think the issue is related to polygon count, MRQ seems to have issues with foliage occasionally. I have not experienced it myself yet, but have seen many who do, including people with A6000, and RTX3090s , the polygon count seems to be irrelevant, it's a foliage tool issue.

Hi! Do you have any Scalability settings turned on? I would set it all to "Epic" or "cinematic" if possible. Otherwise there may be some culling console commands you can look into.

@@WilliamFaucher Hey! Yes, I set to Cinematic. I'm not too familiar with console commands but I did a search here, so I tried r.ViewDistanceScale, r.DetailMode, but it still weird

Just remove them from the console command list in MRQ. Simple as that!

You mean you want the safeframe overlays to be baked into your renders...?

@@WilliamFaucher I’ve found a work around in PS pretty easily, it’s not too big of an issue but it would be nice if it was a box to tick on and off. Thanks William.

For the most part this is all pretty much the same. I just don't use any console variables anymore unless I need a very specific thing

It depends where you're viewing your renders perhaps, and which file format you're using. Are you rendering images sequences? Jpg? EXR? Do you have screen calibration? Some apps don't display screen calibration profiles in image viewers on windows. There are so many factors here. You should be viewing your images in a color-managed program like Photoshop or Davinci Resolve.

​@@WilliamFaucher So I have tried exporting both as JPG and PNG, what I have noticed is: the colors look correct when I put the renders inside artstation and they look almost correct when I put them on after effects. On photoshop and windows photo viewer they look desaturated, unless I click the edit on photo viewer which while on edit mode its the colors its supposed to be. As for screen calibration, I got two screens, one which I havent touched at all in settings and one that has been calibrated. I should also add that this happens only on one of my scenes, i tried it out with another scene of mine and it worked fine. Preview of the render also looks as it should on movie render

Movie Render Queue is more intended for rendering individual frames/image sequences, not a whole video file. The reason for that is the temporal subsampling which doesn't play well with audio. You're better off rendering the image sequences, and syncing the audio in post, like Premiere, Resolve, etc.

May be your graphics card VRAM is full and not enough VRAM left for rendering.

Yeah 100%! In film we pretty much never work with video files, we always have frame/image sequences and bring that into an editing package such as Davinci Resolve, Premiere, After Effects, etc

Not a naïve question at all! That is correct, MRQ is mostly made for rendering out high quality frames, not video. That said, Apple ProRes is a video format, you can give that a try!

I had this same question for months. I'm not sure why out of the dozens of "How to Use Movie Render Queue" videos I watched, not a single one of them mentioned this critical step, but I'm glad I finally have an answer. Now to find a way to make frames into a video...

Good question! I don’t think you need to use them if you aren’t using raytracing. I can’t say for certain since I never turn raytracing off, but give it a try!

Hi and thanks. @@WilliamFaucher Unfortunate I have a GTX1050TI, sotherefore I can't run raytracing!! I'm curious if you still use the console commands!

@@WilliamFaucher Would be nice if you could check it out (please) any suggestions what to turnon would be great (for none Raytracing users. Thanks

Unfortunately not!

@@WilliamFaucher thanks for your time

That's odd, are you sure you set the path correctly in the Output tab? You also need to delete the "Deferred Rendering" tab and replace it with the Pathtracer tab. Do you have a sequence set up and loaded and saved?

@@WilliamFaucher I just found out!.....I was wrong in the output file type setting...I just enabled the Apple ProRes plugin and now I have a final file...thanks!!

I'm not using either, I disable AA entirely when rendering with MRQ, as shown in this tutorial :)

Don’t bother with the console variables if you don’t use raytracing!

Hi! It's in the works actually :)

Try spatial samples instead of temporal samples!

@@WilliamFaucher in the particle setting ?

@@WilliamFaucher I’m going to search tonight Thank you 🙏

@@kanyllofficiellevrai6209 no in the movie render queue AA settings

@@WilliamFaucher thank you very very much william 😁🙏

Have you tried adjusting the focus of your camera?

@@WilliamFaucher yes lol, but it’s super drastic on the render. I did find a video about focus debug and my f-stop is super shallow at about 2.8. So I’m gonna try adjusting those and using the camera debug to solve the issue. Great tutorial btw, I’m VR dev by trade but super excited about Virtual Production as well.

Hmm there could be something in that specific level that is causing you to crash!

Well, yes, that's entirely normal. Sequencer doesn't use any subsampling, and the motion blur won't look NEARLY as good. It will have way more artifacts and will be sub-par quality. Movie Render Queue is intended to deliver better results, and will take longer. That is entirely by design. Only way around is to use fewer subsamples.

@@WilliamFaucher Thank you for the reply. Yes, I've been testing for the last few hours and reached the same conclusion. Guess the only way through is those slow but high quality renders. Keep making videos! We learn a lot from you.

Am I correct in assuming those rocks are foliage actors, and not manually placed static meshes?

That's odd, are you sure your camera cut track is set correctly? Did you set the custom framerange in the MRQ settings under the Output tab?

There are hundreds of consolve variables in Unreal, each does a different thing. The variables in this video are what is recommended by Epic for rendering with Subsampling. A value of 0 means off, or disabled. Aka: False. A value of 1 means True, enabled, on. Epic recommends disabling some temporal effects when using Subsampling. Hope this answers your question!

​@@WilliamFaucher Thanks for the prompt response. I am trying to wrap my head around a lot of this still. I can't seem to figure out which temporal effects should be disabled when subsampling. I am also confused regarding if the console variables are overriding the project/global settings or are adding another pass on top. I am coming from octane render to UE4 so I am more used to a localized set of render paramters globally. Now I have different raytrace setting for my project/post device/camera and now export setting?....It's a lot to take in but still, the render time is wayyyy quicker so, it's worth it to me. Great vid! I look forward to seeing more!

@@SubbParProductions So the console commands you need are the same ones I am using in Part 1 of this video. You can find them in the Epic Documentation included in the description of that video as well. There's four, I believe. The console commands aren't project-based. They need to be enabled or disabled, up to you. It's not the most intuitive thing, but once you know what you need, it's fine. The raytrace and postprocess settings are in this order of priority from lowest to highest : Post Process Volume > Camera > Export Settings. I believe the reason for the lack of centralisation of settings is because Unreal is first and foremost a games engine, with support for cinematics/rendering kind of slapped on as a bonus feature. Hopefully Unreal Engine 5 addresses this. Thanks for the kind words, and always happy to help!

Hi there! Your English is great! Warm up frames are controlled in the "anti aliasing" tab of Movie Render Queue :)

@@WilliamFaucher Thanks a lot Okay I will try. My last question, I don't use ray tracing, Should I still enter the console variable. Greetings rosuckmedia

I believe that in order to render Alpha, you need to have "Accumulator Includes Alpha" checked on in the "Defferred Rendering" tab!

@@WilliamFaucher That's right, but unreal engine particles do not appear only 3d objects

I've never seen that error before. Did you set up your sequence properly? Do you have a camera cut track? Are you in the negative frames? (frames before 0000).

It could be you don't have you camera cut track set up correctly! It's a bit unintuitive to be honest but yeah. That should give you a starting point!

@@WilliamFaucher Actually I was wrong. The camera is in the correct location. I didn’t realize it because the actual problem is that almost every object in my scene disappears when I render. I’m trying to render a complex environment purchased from the marketplace with hundreds of objects, but only a few of them remain when I render. It renders correctly from the sequencer but not from the queue. A Google search turns up other people with the same problem but few solutions. The only answer I’ve seen is to increase the bounding scale of each object. I’ve tried increasing it all the way from 1.0 up to 1000 with no change.

Png is not a video format. It exported an image sequence. Each frame is an image. You need to set it to a video format in your output settings if you want a video!

@@WilliamFaucher thx for answer,but I can't find video format in movie render queue

@@salimnad1526 What you are looking for is Prores. Prores is just an encoding format, that's video. :)

@@WilliamFaucher thx for answer, but I can't find . Avi in output like in the sequencer...but thx

Yeah I don’t think Movie Render Queue has avi output. If you need video, use Apple Prores, it’s a much better video format than avi, much higher quality. Movie render queue is made for image sequences for use in post processing , with apps like Resolve , premiere, after effects, nuke, etc.

You can, but you need to enable the Apple Prores or Avid DNX plugin to do so :)

@@WilliamFaucher thank you for sharing.

I think you can but it won't look the same, it won't match your temporal subsampled result, and you'll get a weird haloing effect :( That said, 4.27 not has 32 bit options! So thats a plus!

Anything really! Personally I use Davinci Resolve, it's free! Bring the image sequence in there, and render out a video!

@@WilliamFaucher how exactly would I import it into Resolve as a sequence ? When I drag the loose images onto the timeline it will make it 1 sequence but the timing of the frames will be off. There is probably a setting in the MRQ which im overlooking. Thanks for the help man.

@@remon563 why would the timing of the frames be off...? Not sure I understand the issue you’re having. Do you mean framerate?

@@WilliamFaucher yes its strange but when I drag in all the images as a sequence the timing between them is of, 1 frame lasts 5 seconds i.e. it guesses the length of the video. Hope that makes sense!

I use ffmpeg. This is the window .bat file I use for drag and drop encoding (just drop the first image in the sequence over the .bat file. ffmpeg.exe needs to be in the same folder or PATH): echo Drag and drop an image from an image sequence (png format, naming xxxxxx.0001.png) in Windows Explorer and the images will be encoded into an mp4 h264 avi file at 30fps. set filestoencode=%1 call :strLen strlen filestoencode set /A trimlength=strlen set /A trimlength=%trimlength% - 10 echo %trimlength% set /A test = 2 setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set filestoencode=!filestoencode:~0,%trimlength%! echo %filestoencode% SETLOCAL DisableDelayedExpansion ffmpeg.exe -y -hwaccel auto -f image2 -framerate 30 -i %filestoencode%.%%04d.png" -c:v hevc_nvenc -rc vbr -cq 31 -qmin 31 -qmax 31 -profile:v main10 -pix_fmt p010le -b:v 2K %filestoencode%.mp4 echo About to delete source files pause del %filestoencode%*.png pause exit /b call :strlen result longString echo %result% goto :eof REM ********* function ***************************** :strlen ( setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion (set^ tmp=!%~2!) if defined tmp ( set "len=1" for %%P in (4096 2048 1024 512 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1) do ( if "!tmp:~%%P,1!" NEQ "" ( set /a "len+=%%P" set "tmp=!tmp:~%%P!" ) ) ) ELSE ( set len=0 ) ) ( endlocal set "%~1=%len%" exit /b )

MRQ is really made for rendering image sequences, which can then be brought into an app like Premiere, After Effects, resolve, etc, to be rendered as video. If you NEED video, Apple ProRes is what you want.

@@WilliamFaucher ohh okay cool ,Thanks for the reply. Im just using unreal for some simple video making. So i dont need insane quality and time loss. So i may just keep using the sequencer for now. Thanks for the info though.

@@Konksling123 Ahh yeah then the vanilla sequencer is probably the right one for you! MRQ is really all about getting max quality :)