Rendering videos

You can use Forma Render to create videos of your product. Different operating systems have different requirements to encode videos:

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

Installing the default video encoder on Ubuntu

To install the default video encoder on Ubuntu:

  1. In your terminal, enter sudo apt update.
  2. Enter sudo apt install vpx-tools.

You can test that the encoder is installed by entering vpxenc into your terminal.

Installing the default video encoder on MacOS

To install the default video encoder on MacOS:

  1. If you don't have Homebrew installed, install it by following the directions on the Homebrew page.
  2. In your terminal, enter brew install libvpx.
  3. Enter brew edit libvpx. This command opens the libvpx.rb brew script file in your default text editor.
  4. Reopen the brew script file in another text editor of your choice for easier editing.
  5. Erase the line --disable-examples.
  6. Back in your terminal, enter brew reinstall --build-from-source libvpx.

You can test that the encoder is installed by entering vpxenc into your terminal.