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Enhanced Blender Playblast Review Plugin

This plugin enhances Blender's native playblast, providing convenient features that allow one-click animation preview, temporary modification of video properties, and easy addition of custom information to videos.

System Requirements

• Blender 4.2.0 or higher
• FFmpeg (required for video processing)

Due to some limitations of the Blender Python API, this plugin requires FFmpeg to be installed on your computer for video processing and compositing.

If you are using Windows, we recommend using UniGetUI to quickly install FFmpeg.

Location

3D Viewport ‣ N-panel ‣ Tool ‣ Anim Reviewer

Usage Tutorial

Ensure there is an active camera in the scene, go to the Anim Reviewer panel and click "Run Anim Review" to start playblast.

Feature Overview

Basic Playblast

• One-click generation of current scene preview videos
• Support for multiple video codec formats (H.264, H.265, MPEG-4, AV1)
• Can synchronously output audio
• Modify video parameters (resolution, frame range, output location, etc.) without affecting the scene settings, only take effect during playblast

Burn-in Metadata

• Overlay custom information on videos
• Support for 6 positions: top-left, top-center, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, bottom-right
• Display scene information, timestamps, frame numbers and other metadata
• Support for custom fonts, colors, sizes and margins

Settings Management

• Use preset panels to easily switch between different settings
• Import/export settings files for easy team sharing

Line Breaks

If your overlay information needs line breaks, you can use \N to represent line breaks. Although you can't see the effect in the Viewport (Blender text drawing doesn't support line breaks), it will work in the actual video.

Contributing

If you have additional video format or video metadata requirements, or other feature requests, feel free to submit Issues and Pull Requests!