The recorder does not work properly (Krita 5.1 RC1)

Lately I have started to make timelapses of my drawings, but I had been noticing that when exporting them the recorder did not save all the progress in video, that is, it does not export all the frames.

Likewise, the transition that is made at the beginning is cut depending on the input fps.

This apparently only happens when there are many images to export to video.

Do you think maybe there are some images that generally missing? or the exporter is skipping them?

How many images does your recording have? I think when testing this out I only had maybe a few hundred images in my recording.

If you don’t mind could you share your krita file/image recordings? You can also send them to me privately if you don’t want it to be public

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I already checked and in fact no image is needed so the second option is most likely because when you are exporting the timelapse the percentage ends when it reaches 85, something that had never happened to me.

My recording has 11233 images.

I have no problem with sharing it but it won’t be soon since it is 1 GB and the upload speed of my internet is not much :pensive

Edit: already compressed it weighs much less, I’ll send it to you in a moment.

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After some discussion we found out this was because of 2 separate/unrelated issues:

  1. The recorder would not export a complete video. It would stop midway at the same point in the video each time
  2. The transition between the “result preview” and main timelapse had its animation cut

The first issue was a result of some missing images in the recorder folder. The exporter expects the image files to be numbered continuously. So the files should be numbered like 000001.jpg, 0000002.jpg, 000003.jpg, etc until the last one. If one is skipped the exporter stops at that number so it doesn’t make the full video. To fix this you can copy the previous image to replace the missing one. So if 000010.jpg is missing make a copy of 000009.jpg and name it 000010.jpg.

The second issue is a bug with the exporter. If you put in a high number for input_fps (I think above 60) that causes the animation between the preview and main timelapse to be cut. I think the higher you go the more it gets cut. This one I think we’ll have to update the code for the transition to work with any input_fps value.

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(If these issues aren’t being solved in the immediate short-term, they should probably be reported on the bug tracker, so they don’t get lost.)

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Hi all,

The second issue where the transition gets cut was fixed as part of my MR. Should be in Krita next today/tomorrow

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Thank you so much! :smiley: , I just saw that it was finally merged, this always brought me problems and it is good to see that I can now export directly from krita without using Kdenlive.

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