Essentially I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c39vdC7jloo
I managed to set up the Movie Render Queue to render an .mp4 video instead of a series of pictures on my Windows computer.
However, I tried to do the same on my Macbook M1 Pro and it does not seem to work.
When I press the ‘render’ button in the Render Movie Queue, the rendering starts, however, as soon as it goes through every frame the renderer quits. What I am left with is a folder with a .jpg of every frame.
There is the following error: “MoviePipelinePIEExecutor: Error: Failed to launch encoder process, see output log for more details.”
When I try this command: ‘MovieRenderPipeline.DumpCLIEncoderCodecs’ to check available codecs, I get this error: ‘Failed to launch process, cannot determine codecs. Please verify that the executable exists at the path specified!’
I have triple checked ffmpeg is in the right directory. I have made sure that the .exe can be opened and is not blocked by the system somehow, and I added the .exe to the PATH (Tried inputting full path or just ‘ffmpeg.exe’ or ‘ffmpeg’ in the project settings under ‘Movie Pipeline CLI Encoder’)
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated - I’m in desperate need of making this work on my mac as I need to generate stimuli for my PhD experiment using the movie render queue. Thank you!