Video Rendering

Forma Render lets you create videos of your Products in the Stages and Domes in the Stages Gallery.

• On Windows, Forma Render's reference MP4 encoder (MFYUVToH264.exe) is included. It will be used by default.
• On Ubuntu and MacOS you must manually install the royalty-free VP8 & VP9 reference encoder vpxenc.

How to install the default video encoder on Ubuntu

Type the following commands in a terminal:

• sudo apt update
• sudo apt install vpx-tools

Test that the encoder is present by running vpxenc in the terminal.

How to install the default video encoder on MacOS

Type the following commands in a terminal:

• brew install libvpx
• brew edit libvpx (this will open the libvpx.rb brew script in your default text editor, often vim. Note the file path and reopen it for editing in another text editor of your choice)

Erase the line --disable-examples from the libvpx.rb script file (at the time of this writing, on line 23).

Type the following command in a terminal:

• brew reinstall --build-from-source libvpx

Test that the encoder is present by running vpxenc in the terminal.