ScreenshotSaver is a Blender 3.0+ tool for easily rendering high-quality viewport screenshots of your WIPs without any of the setup hassle and with more reliability overall.
- Efficiently add and manipulate screenshot cameras
- Per camera resolution control
- Per camera custom Workbench & EEVEE shading setups
- Per camera specific frame rendering
- Copy camera settings between different screenshot items
- Quick preview & selection toggles for each screenshot camera
- Screenshots respect render visibility
- Take screenshots in EXR, PNG, or JPEG
- Automatic folder creation for neat, reliable and organized file structure
- Option to automatically render screenshots on file save for a hands-off approach to collecting progress shots
- Built-in FFMPEG encoding support to convert your screenshots into an MP4 or GIF in one click!
- Set a framerate to control the playback speed
- Add buffer frames at the start/end to "hold" on results
- Downscale encoded GIFs for smaller sizes to accomodate web uses
- Automatically converts EXRs to the sRGB color space
- ...And more!
Below is an example clip of a Cryobed model I worked on for a private project.
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- Click the Code button in the top right of the repo & click Download ZIP in the dropdown (Do not unpack the ZIP file)
- Follow this video for the rest of the simple instructions
This video guide is for a different project, but the same principles apply.
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- In some very specific cases, GIF may fail to encode JPEGs due to an internal FFMPEG error. Sometimes finding and removing the bad image fixes this.