When to pre-render and when to use engine

Development Cinematics & Media
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Hello, I’m thinking about making some very cinematic cutscenes and have seen that there are lots of debates on whether pre-rendered cutscenes are best or engine cutscenes are better. I personally would like to ask for which handles certain aspects best for performance. I would like to know when you would use pre-rendered or engine rendered. Would pre-rendered be best for complex motion, particle effects, or mass groups of characters? or would the Engine be able to handle it with better performance?

Thanks

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you probably have to juggle the end result, if the target platform is multiple places, you’ll have to scale everything in the sequence to handle all of them
vs a video, which will look the same on every device,
vs realtime cinematics, which could possibly be smaller end footprint, and keep consistent with what the player is currently looking at