Using Image Sequences in Unreal Engine

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[@shash8085]

Hahaha! same here!

[@sakattodesign9927]

@@JonathanWinbush is that working using transparent png sequence?

[@griffithpictures]

Thanks!

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[@tomahawk81]

keep coming back for this tutorial. Winbush you are my Unreal Andrew Kramer. Many thanks, True life saver!!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thanks so much, glad to see my older content still helps! 🤙🏿🤙🏿

[@AlejandroGuerrero]

For those trying to add PNG with Alpha.... on 5:42 you have to change the material type to allow Opacity input, then connect the A from the Texture Sample to the "Opacity" Connector. Be patient as a 10 second 25fps export on my PC took some seconds to appear, it was 250 PNG frames with transparency 5.5 Mb. each. I tried MOV filed with Quicktime Animation and Quicktime 444 with alpha those do not work under media player. Alpha only works at 5.3 with live feed from a Blackmagic card OR Bink video player and converting the video. But Bink video does not sync with Sequencer (yet).

[@samunderkhan1078]

So Helpful Winbush, everybody else don't get to the point or even decide to ignore the level sequence part entirely. Regards.

[@SLASHERHEATH]

Important step: if you want to package your project and/or have these accessible to other team members via version control make sure to add your files within the project using the "Content/Movies/ExampleFolderName" directory. The PNGs won't appear in Unreal but will if you right-click the folders and select show in explorer. It's a bit like Unity's /Resources folder. Otherwise great video!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Great to know thanks for the tip! 🤙🏿

[@DSFXRENDER]

WIN strikes again. was having issues with my export and who saves the day. WIIIINNNBUSHHH! thanks for saving hours of a headache.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Glad to help 🤙🏿

[@folschild]

Thank you for the millionth time for another insanely clear tutorial. If anyone else runs into this: I tried using a jpeg sequence and was getting an error. I tried switching the ImgMediaSource to a png sequence and it still didn't work. Finally I had to delete the original ImgMedisSource and create a new one with the png sequence and it worked fine.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Oh interesting that's a good one to note incase I run into that too

[@I3ra]

I love UE5 but there are so many steps involved in just playing a simple sequence. Great tutorial btw.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yea I feel ya at the end of the day it's a gaming engine trying to transition into being a one for all application but I agree alot of this stuff can and should alot simpler moving forward

[@aliranjbar655]

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[@JonathanWinbush]

No problem my friend glad to help 🙏🏿

[@BrentLeBlancCG]

Hey Winbush, Feeding Wolves sent me over here. I really needed this for my short film. Thanks dude! Golden info

[@JonathanWinbush]

Glad it was helpful and tell Gabby I said whats up! 🤙🏿

[@jjsatterwhite]

Thanks for your help on this! Second video from your channel today that guided me through a challenge. Much appreciated!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Haha that's awesome glad to help? 🤙🏾

[@alexandrefreitas9651]

Thanks so much bro! you really helped me with this one. I was struggling to have a video of fireplace flame with alpha channel enabled, i didn't know it was possible to import img sequence as well. PNG with the alpha channel worked for me. Once again, thank you! you've won a subscriber

[@JonathanWinbush]

Glad it helped you out my dude and thanks for the sub 💪🏿

[@davidkerman1732]

Awesome Tutorial. I'm on 5.4. I know they updated some stuff like just dragging in .movs but this seems to be the right way. Thank you!

[@JonathanWinbush]

yea I still like doing it with image sequences myself as well

[@metafuel]

This was perfect. Quick and well explained. Exactly what i needed to continue with my project. Thanks.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Awesome Shane glad it helped out with your project! 🤙🏿

[@SiggeLindhe]

Good catch with the emissive color, thanks

[@JonathanWinbush]

No problem 🤙🏿

[@LoganPinney]

Awesome tips on using IMG sequences inside UE sequencer!! Cheers Winbush! Thanks!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yup it fixes the framerate bug too

[@eddyraulquezadarodriguez2656]

Thanks so much! You really go to the point and make it easy to understand!

[@JonathanWinbush]

You're very welcome 🤙🏾

[@DSFXRENDER]

killing these tuts!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thanks man just trying to help out where I can 🤙🏿💯

[@TheMotionNerd]

You're the GOAT I really appreciate this it was much needed

[@JonathanWinbush]

Appreciate you Motion thanks! 🤙🏿

[@ROCKETSCHOPSHOP]

This is what I been looking for!! Big Thanks for your tutorials my guy!!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yea buddy! Glad to help 🤙🏿

[@DigitalStaff]

Nice, super helpful video dude. Thank you.

[@manicdistopia2502]

wow was stuck on last video - this was the video I needed thx bro

[@JonathanWinbush]

You bet 🤙🏾

[@vexan_twitch]

just amazing! thank you so much

[@stevenbaker153]

Awesome video. Did the job perfectly

[@JonathanWinbush]

Great glad it helped! 🤙🏾

[@mpowers10000]

Thnx Winbush. Your tutorials are always crystal! Side note: If vthe image sequence you are referencing has a .ifl file in the directory (3ds MAX creates and uses these - image file lists) it will cause UE to crash or not play the image stack.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Oh interesting, yea I'm not familar with .ifl files at all but thats good for anyone to know that may see this.

[@ashkanaliyar6247]

Awesome Tutorial, Thank you so much 🙏🔥

[@JonathanWinbush]

You're welcome!

[@romanbruni]

super exact info winbush! recipe for movie experience ! cheers thanks from Rio

[@JonathanWinbush]

Awesome my man thanks for the support I hope to visit Brazil one day 🤙🏾

[@romanbruni]

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[@recontastic]

Great video exactly what I needed!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Glad it helped!

[@marcstatz]

Thank you for this tutorial man! Super easy.

[@JonathanWinbush]

You're welcome my man 🤙🏾

[@PrivacyEnt]

this is super helpful!! thanks a lot, I was wondering why it was not working with video files in sequencer. my thought was that it was showing the video in "realtime" but when it is rendering the rendered scene takes longer than realtime, so for example you have a 5seconds clip in sequencer, that has a texture video with 5 seconds length, and with it renders in 15sec; then your video would look like its 3 times faster than normal on the rendered output.

[@JonathanWinbush]

That's an interesting theory I didn't think of that but it makes sense to me

[@synergy_products]

Hi ! Great tuts ! 1:39~ [!]mark appers side of sequence path. can you package ?

[@JonathanWinbush]

I'm not sure I understand the question

[@rehmanurdu]

time 2:20 when i am opening media unreal 5.2 is crashing :(

[@petsandwild2122]

thanks bro just made my day

[@JonathanWinbush]

Glad to have helped my dude 🤙🏿

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You saved my life sir

[@JonathanWinbush]

Glad to of helped 🤙🏿

[@bacalaofilms]

thanks!

[@JonathanWinbush]

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[@anixcool]

Great and very informative as always. Thank You 👊🏿🤙🏿😄

[@JonathanWinbush]

Your welcome my brother 🤙🏾

[@EddyNewhope]

Very helpful! Thanks a bunch man.

[@JonathanWinbush]

You're welcome

[@nwisniewska176]

You solved my problem, thank you!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Absolutely 🤙🏾

[@raulcardenas58]

Muchas gracias!!!

[@griffithpictures]

Todays Starbucks is on me! Wow, right click on the Media Track to assign it the media that was already assigned. Again, like the green solid to get an Alpha channel to this pitfall... well Winbush is the one who shows us around the problem. How much time I have wasted BEFORE this video. Hurts my brain.... Thank you for showing the way...

[@tripwire4501]

This was awesome , thanks you ! I dropped a like as well

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thank you Trip I appreciate the support 👊🏾🤙🏾

[@julienrobinson5849]

Hey great tutorial but i wanted to know if its possible to have this type of animated texture on a playable character (a pattern that moves on his body). Thanks again for the great work sir!

[@cain-5094]

Hi, this was an amazing tutorial thanks for making it! I was wondering if I could ask. I'm quite new to unreal.. Would this image sequence work with alpha pngs to have a transparent background? And if so.. can you use it on say a rounded object like a cylinder? With the transparent Background on the cylinder?

[@JonathanWinbush]

I've not tried alphas but I believe you can

[@AlejandroGuerrero]

On 5:42 you have to change the material type to allow Opacity input, then connect the A from the Texture Sample to the "Opacity" Connector.

[@MonzotoOfficialChannel]

Exactly what I was looking for 👍

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yup this tutorial was long over due 🤙🏾

[@ChaosElement]

You are a huge help!!!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thank you my dude 🤙🏾

[@katatonix]

Thank you Bro !

[@JonathanWinbush]

You're welcome 🤙🏾

[@JasonAdank]

how does someone go about having a looping image sequence work in game play mode? With this methodology, the img is static in play mode, and is only playing in sequencer....

[@jameshill2043]

ever find a solution to this? works in sequencer but not when I play the game.

[@reinohvp]

Hi, thanks for this tutorial. Just a question. When I play the game the media sequence won't start automatically. Why is that?

[@SyntheticWasteland]

This worked out way better than trying to do an MOV file with Alpha. For some reason I could get it to play ok two times and then I couldn't make it happen after that. This works perfectly, though!

[@JonathanWinbush]

yea im not sure why but video files cause issues on rendering

[@SyntheticWasteland]

@@JonathanWinbush I got it to work once, but for whatever reason I couldn't do it again.

[@StrohTime]

Does this work for uefn? I see the img media source, but don't see a way to make it into material without the media player?

[@JonathanWinbush]

Not yet in uefn

[@bobvelocity]

Hey Win, nice tutorial. I was wondering does this replace the backplate plugin thing? Is there a way to hook this up to the camera?

[@JonathanWinbush]

Hmm im not familar with the backplate but if you have this on a plane you can attach that to a camera if thats what you mean

[@bobvelocity]

@@JonathanWinbush Much like you would in Maya or whatever. I can't seem to get the back plate to work with my tracked camera. Followed the docs but it just refuses to work. I did think about what you said too so thanks.

[@mintonsminerals6162]

Is it possible to add an alpha channel so the image sequence can be transparent?

[@oscarandrade6024]

yes, the process is the same, you have to setup a material with the shader's blend parameter set at "masked" and feed the alpha of the PNG to the "opacity mask" slot of the shader

[@WillKistler]

Lifesaver!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Glad to help 🤙🏾

[@gdmsave]

Thank you!

[@oscarcarvajal2685]

you are the best🤟👌

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thanks! 🤙🏾

[@cesarurrutia1016]

Hi, thanks for your videos they are fantastic, I am desperate with a project and maybe you can help me, I have a problem importing both png and exr with alpha. The chromakey I do in Davinci and it looks perfect, but when I take the sequence of images to Unreal 5.4 I always have a dark border around the figure, I do not know if I need to change some parameter or how to erode the edges to make it look good. I have to export the png or exr in some specific way? or is it something I have to fix inside Unreal. HELP. Thanks in advance

[@meskalation]

The buggy framerate is so annoying to deal with in movie render queue. Thanks for the advise!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yup 100%

[@himansuganguli3175]

hey. thanks for the tutorial it was perfect but im not able to render my clip. once i click render its going black. can you help.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Did you add a camera cuts track like so? kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2imcqR5esSGjKM

[@himansuganguli3175]

yes, i did.. but when i click render.. the image sequence disappears from the mesh. and it turns black

[@thefriendlyadvisor15]

Just what i was looking for :) GREAT! Is it possible to make the black background in you image sequence transparent in the material editor too?

[@JonathanWinbush]

That I'm unsure of I'd just bring it in with alpha already embedded

[@thefriendlyadvisor15]

@@JonathanWinbush Yes, it was transparent by default =)

[@thefriendlyadvisor15]

@@JonathanWinbush Do you offer "personal training" (recorded video) regarding specific material creations?

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@thefriendlyadvisor15 I don't at this time

[@benchrist5426]

you're the fucking goat mate. thanks so much. life saver!!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thank you so much brother appreciate it 🤙🏿🤙🏿

[@lucianantohi4921]

Hello, i have 2300 frames of green screen keyed, when export from Unreal i have issue with the speed of playback. There is too much for engine or for computer to calculate?

[@JonathanWinbush]

The image sequence technique here usually fixes the timing issue for me

[@lyonbandivas3876]

You need to streched the clip I had that isse but mine was way shorte then yohr

[@berriostudio]

Hello, what can I do if my image sequence when played looks slow, with lag?

[@JonathanWinbush]

Use an ext sequence they play back better in unreal

[@alexarchviz1613]

sorry... i have a big delay with a work to deliver due in uneral engine5 when i try to export the secuence the EXR secunece doesnt work. i did the simple steps but no mather what, in all cases what i get is always the same.. : only 1 file exr... but never the secuence.. Could you tell me how can fix this ? i have 2 days looking this and i cant understand what happend! tks a lot. keep waiting!!! tks again!!

[@JonathanWinbush]

This tutorial is for playing image sequences in UE not rendering but this tutorial might help kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2imcqR5esSGjKM

[@sevenfreem928]

Hi, I want to make crowd people from shooting in green screen. but i want to copy it into basketball stadion. do you have any tutorial for that? Thank you so much

[@JonathanWinbush]

I don't

[@pamato2278]

wow gthnx bro.

[@AiDev4Unreal1337_Ai_Dev]

Why am I able to get this to work in every single mode except standalone? When I launch the game in standalone mode, it shows nothing on the plane..... Why?!?!?!?

[@SyanTheBee]

Can you import just a single PNG image on sequencer? I want to do this, but the image I have doesn't move, its just a normal PNG image

[@JonathanWinbush]

if its only 1 png then you dont need a sequence you just make a material like normal

[@SyanTheBee]

@@JonathanWinbush alright, I'll try that, I just like how you have the image covering the screen, like UI in a game

[@SyanTheBee]

@@JonathanWinbush Sorry to bother you like this XD but I'm actually new to Unreal Engine 5 XD I was wondering how you actually add a material, well normal material to a timeline, the thing is I wanted to add dialogue boxes to an animation I was making

[@testlist3596]

idk why but my unreal keeps telling me "url incorrect parameter or unsupported" even though it's a PNG sequence I exported from after effects :( i've tried moving it to the same file path as the project but still none :(

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yea I'm not sure I usually export from AE myself and it takes it in UE Not sure it would make a difference but maybe try exporting from media encoder

[@testlist3596]

@@JonathanWinbush Aaah after searching for no ends, turns out i need to change the decoder settings to image sequence! still thank you for the tutorial though!!!

[@kylejohnson268]

But how do you make it work after packaging it? My image sequence doesn't survive being turned into an APK.

[@JonathanWinbush]

I don't as I only use ue for rendering at the moment

[@dougjohnson1517]

@@JonathanWinbush OK, thanks for replying. My search continues...

[@najormp2667]

this is sadly not working anymore in UE 5.3 . I was using this often and now suddenly doesn't play anymore :(

[@lukewilliams7020]

Hi great video - do you know why when i export the green screen plays out in slow motion rather than normal speed - the fps of the exr image sequence is 25 and matches the timeline and project settings but it still renders to slow motion?

[@JonathanWinbush]

Did you bring it in as a image sequence? Video files seem to mess up the framerate

[@lukewilliams7020]

@@JonathanWinbush yes an open exr image sequence exported from fcpx

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@lukewilliams7020 hmm I'm not sure on that one usually using an image sequence fixed it for me. Maybe try png?

[@lukewilliams7020]

@@JonathanWinbush thing is it plays back at normal speed in the level sequencer. It’s just on export capture that the frame rate slows down even though they’re matched throughout

[@ielohim2423]

@@lukewilliams7020 I am having the exact same issue. Image sequence rendered out at 30fps. Timeliness at 30fps. Rendered out at 30fps. Looks fine when I playback. But renders out in slow motion. Thought it was a ue5 issue. Does the same in 4.27. Gonna try 4.26 today

[@calmuk8985]

Hi The Img media source wont play in the media player and when i try to double click it i get "LogWebMMedia: Error: Not supported URL: img" even though the directory is already set at content/movies. Just wondering if anyone had a fix, would be greatly appreciated.

[@JonathanWinbush]

I'm not sure on my end but in the doc there maybe a trouble shooting part that can help

[@calmuk8985]

@@JonathanWinbush Thank you sm for the response, i just fixed the issue, it was in the playback options and changing it to img media decoder

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@calmuk8985 glad ya got it!

[@karloseduardoguzmanmolina818]

Thank you master. I just have a problem. The output video runs very faster than the original video.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Even when you use the image sequence? Usually the image sequence fixes that for me

[@nightwintertooth9502]

Why did a 5 second 287 frame of animation explode my project by 8 gigs? Each uasset file for this is 30 megs in size... Unreal tried to convert them all to texture 2d . I used a PNG optimizer to get these down to less than 30 megs. At a standard video bit rate its quite far superior to h.264 this level of compression at 28 : 1 so what's goin on with that? Unreal wants to convert pngs to uassets on adding it to the image sequencer for some reason, and each uasset is 30 megs a pop...ouch.

[@JonathanWinbush]

You'd have to send that question to the Epic dev team

[@nightwintertooth9502]

@@JonathanWinbush It was a perforce issue, we managed to fix it. Its related to deleting Saved and Intermediate directories so engine settings where not saving correctly. I had to whitelist the editor configuration files in those directrories so they populated correctly in depot for us. You should click "Ignore" when prompted to import new assets and make sure "Never ask again" is checked.

[@nightwintertooth9502]

@@JonathanWinbush It was a perforce issue, we managed to fix it.

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@nightwintertooth9502 Oh interesting I haven't crossed that before but glad you got it going 🤙🏿

[@nightwintertooth9502]

@@JonathanWinbush i made a depot clean up script that honors p4ignore in powershell. Very nice to have since reconcile never always catches everything, fixes up the .ini files that need to be there too.

[@戴传富]

你的教程非常有用，但遇到一个问题，渲染出来的视频素材会带运动模糊，画质会降低

[@JonathanWinbush]

如果您愿意，可以使用后期处理音量来减少或关闭运动模糊 🤙🏿

[@coolacloy94]

Thanks!

[@markmixing]

THANK YOU!

[@JonathanWinbush]

You're welcome!🤙🏿