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Goal: Render out the animation to a video file.

⬆️ The goal now is to render out the animation into a video file. ⬆️

🚨 In a future course, we will learn how to render out animation into image sequences.

• 🚨 This is important because it allows us to render individual frames and is more stable during the rendering process. Rendering can take hours, days, months.
• 🚨 For now - we are going to keep it simple and use a .mp4 render output.
• 🚨.mp4 is useful for basic test animations and previz animations. Renders that do not take long.
• 🚨 Don't make .mp4 a long term habit for long renders.

Set the output properties

1. Go to output properties, scroll down. ⬆️

1. Change the output path ⬆️

• 🚨 “//” is a relative path, meaning it will put the video file where ever you have your project directory. 🚨

1. Mpeg Video for .mp4 ⬆️

1. Presets ⬆️

1. H264 preset ⬆️

1. High quality compression ⬆️

🚨 We do not need to do this step yet, but this is how we execute render animation settings into a video file. 🚨

• We will do this step later!