Movie Capture

Movie Capture is an extension for Omniverse Kit based Omniverse Apps and allows you to easily render your output in high resolution images or movies in the format of your choice.

Enabling Movie Capture

Movie Capture is an extension and can be enabled by navigating to Window > Extensions Manager and enabling utils.movie_capture. Once enabled you should see a new Panel labeled “Movie Capture” was added to the User Interface. If you close the panel or wish to toggle it off/on, you can navigate to Window > Movie Capture and enable/disable as desired.

Movie Capture Panel

The movie capture tool provides a number of settings to help you output movie sequences or single frame captures. Below is a list of the various settings and their usage.

Movie Capture As Seen in View

Movie Capture as Seen in Create

Option	Result	App Notes
Movie Type	Selection of what type of movie to capture.	View Only
- Sun Study	Drives the sun study tool and records the output.	View Only
Camera	Selects the camera to be assumed for rendering the movie file.
Resolution	Presets for Common Resolutions	Not Available in View
Ratio	Width and Height adjustments to accommodate the Aspect Ratio.
- Width	The width in pixels of the rendered movie file.
- Height	The height in pixels of the rendered movie file.
- Ratio (Drop Down)	Selects the aspect ratio of the rendered movie file.
Frame Rate	Playback Rate in frames per second. Higher is smoother.
Time of Day	Selects the range of time to use in the sun study.
- Start Time	Sets the Sun Study time of day for the rendering to begin.
- End TIme	Sets the Sun Study time of day for the rendering to end.
Time Duration	How many minutes/seconds it takes to cycle through the Time of Day range.
	Also depicts total length of the rendered movie file.
Render Preset	Sets the render quality of the rendered movie file.
- Draft	Optimizes speed of render over quality.
- Good	Balances speed of rendering with quality.
- Best	Optimizes quality of rendering over speed.
- Custom	Uses custom render settings.
- Gear	Opens the render settings allowing a custom setting to be made.
Samples Per Pixel Per Iteration	Total number of samples used for each rendered pixel in one frame update.	Not Available in View
Path Trace Samples	Total Number of path traced samples.	Not Available in View
Subframes per Frame	Number of sub-frames to use in motion blur calculation.	Not Available in View
Frame Shutter Open	Time offset to begin the motion blur.	Not Available in View
Frame Shutter Close	Time offset to end the motion blur.
Render Style	Allows selection of render style.	View Only
- Normal	Renders in the normal render style (full color)	View Only
- White Mode	Renders in White Mode	View Only
Motion Blur	Sets the quality of the Motion Blur of the rendered movie file.	View Only
- Good	Optimizes speed over quality.	View Only
- Better	Balances speed and quality.	View Only
- Best	Optimizes quality over speed.	View Only
Path	Where the rendered movie file will be created.
- Folder	Sets the path of the rendered movie file.
- Arrow	Opens the location set in the Path.
Name	The name of the output file.
- Extension	Sets the extension of the rendered movie file.
- Save Alpha	Preserves alpha transparency in the rendered movie file.
Encoding Target	Sets the compression level of the rendered movie file.	View Only
- HDD	Optimized compression for Hard Disk Drive playback. Better Quality.	View Only
- Web	Optimized compression for Web based playback. Faster Download.
Make Movie	Begins the recording process.
Progress	Once started, shows the progress of the render.
- Elapsed Time	How long the movie has been rendering.
- Estimated Time Remaining	Approximates render duration.
- Current Frame TIme	How long the current frame is taking to render.
- Average Time per Frame	The average time it takes to complete a frame render.
- Encoding
Pause	Stops the current render but allows the render to be resumed.
Cancel	Stops the current render, any render progress will be lost.

Note

Options will vary based on selected renderer.