The file format to export the sequence to.

This will get suffixed with a number depending on the frame. If you only do throwaway animations, you can use a spot on your hard-drive with enough room and select Delete Sequence After Rendering. This means that you will need to find a good place to stick your frames before you can start rendering.

For example, if your computer has a hiccup, and one frame saves out weird, first saving the image sequence allows you to only resave that one weird frame before rendering. The reason for this two-step process is that animation files can be really complex and really big, and this is the best way to allow you to keep control over the export process. It replaces Export Animation.įor rendering to an animated file format, Krita will first render to a PNG sequence and then use FFmpeg, which is really good at encoding into video files, to render that sequence to an animated file format.

Render animation allows you to render your animation to an image sequence.

Ffmpeg extract frames of gif