Can Godot export videos?

MonsieurBouboule

Hi! I have this project that I want to try, and I would like to use Godot for that as I really enjoy the engine and wish to create most of my project with it if possible.

My project is basically to create some sort of editing software, but like a very simple and basic one. I know that Godot has a VideoPlayer class in its API, and I was wondering if that’s possible to export a video using Godot. What I mean by that is basically put several videos together to create a montage (on some sort of timeline) and then « glue » them together to create a single video out of these clips put together, and export it. This is kinda what I did to create png in my previous framework Love2D, except that would be to create and export videos instead of images.

Worst case scenario, if Godot does not allow to do that (since it’s a game engine, that would not surprise me), do you think there’s a way to do that in Godot by creating a simple algorithm or using an external API or whatever, or is that just way to complicated? I guess there’s API created specifically to code videos and all, but I wish I could use Godot for this project.

Thanks for the help :)

cybereality

No, not out-of-box. You'd have to write a plug-in, most likely in C++. GStreamer should be able to do it, and will handle the video compression and all the complex stuff. You'd just have to capture an image in Godot and send it to the GStreamer plug-in. There is some code here that might help you. https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/505#issuecomment-598684752

MonsieurBouboule

Ok I see. Thanks for the answer.