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Export your animation as a video file from OpenToonz – How to animate 2D animation course [#009]

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You created an animation in OpenToonz and want to share it with the world? In this tutorial we will learn two ways to export a video file from OpenToonz… Download ffmpeg from here: https://animislnd.com/ffmpeg

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There are two different aproaches to exporting your animation from OpenToonz:
1. Fast Render MP4 – this requires you to install the video encoder ffmpeg and point OpenToonz to the location of it.
2. the professional workflow of exporting an image sequence and assembling it in a compositing or video editing software.
To demonstrate the professional exporting workflow in DaVinci Resolve, we will import the image sequence in DaVinci Resolve