Image Settings

Output

The Output setting controls your output file's directory, file name, frame rate, and output resolution. Your file name and directory path can be customized using {token} format strings. Output is a required setting and cannot be deleted from the settings window.

Anti-Aliasing

Anti-aliasing controls the number of samples used to produce the final render. There are two types of sampling that produce the render: Spatial and Temporal .

Burn In

Burn In enables adding custom watermarks to your render, which contain information about the render and shot. You can choose whether the Burn In is added to the final image, or is rendered to a separate layer.

Camera

The Camera setting contains settings for the shutter timing and you can specify an overscan percentage to render extra pixels around the edges of your images.

Color Output

The Color Output setting overrides Unreal's default color space settings with a custom OpenColorIO (OCIO) configuration. You can also use it to disable the Tone Curve portion of post-processing even if not using an OCIO-based workflow.

Console Variables

Console Variables enables console commands to be designated when the render begins. This is useful when trying to apply quality settings that are too computationally expensive for real-time preview in the Editor. The variables will be reverted upon the render completing.

Debug Options

Debug Options contain options for debugging certain render behaviors. Typically you do not need to use these options unless you're troubleshooting issues within your renders.

Game Overrides

Game Overrides change several common game-related settings, such as Game Mode and Cinematic Quality settings. This is useful if the game's normal mode displays UI elements or loading screens that you do not want to capture.

High Resolution

The High Resolution settings enable the use of tiled renders to produce larger images without being constrained by maximum texture sizes or memory limits on GPUs.

Output Directory

Designates the file directory where the export saves.

File Name Format

Determines the file name format given to the export. You can use format string tokens to allow for custom naming. Slashes (/) can also be used here to designate subfolders relative to the Output Directory .

Output Resolution

Determines the export resolution.

Use Custom Frame Rate

Enables you to use a custom frame rate different from the one in the Level Sequence.

Output Frame Rate

Determines the new framerate if you enabled Use Custom Frame Rate .

Override Existing Output

Enables you to automatically overwrite any files with the same file name. If disabled, an integer, such as 1, will be appended to the file name.

Zero Pad Frame Numbers

Determines how many numbers to pad the output frame numbers. For example a value of 2 will output _01, and a value of 4 will output _0001 for your file name suffix.

Frame Number Offset

Adds a specified number to the frame numbers when writing to the disk during rendering. This allows you to offset issues regarding negative numbers for labeling frames, which confuses most software. So, instead of writing -2, -1, 0, 1 to the disk, you can write out 98, 99, 100, 101 by setting the Frame Number Offset to 100.

Handle Frame Count

Determines the number of frame handles to include for each shot. This will expand each shot section by the given number of frames on both sides and render them.

Output Frame Step

The amount of frames to skip for every frame. For example, setting the value to 2 sets the rendering to every other frame. For the frames that are skipped, the game will still tick to make the results between rendering every frame and every stepped frame more consistent. Some image quality differences will be visible (due to a different temporal history). This feature is experimental.

Use Custom Playback Range

Enables you to designate a custom playback range different from the sequence.

Custom Start Frame

Determines the frame start if you enabled Custom Playback Range. Start frame is Inclusive.

Custom End Frame

Determines the frame end if you enabled Custom Playback Range. End frame is Exclusive, so a Start Time of 0 and an End Time of 1 will render only one frame (frame 0).

Auto Version

If enabled, Movie Render Queue will check the most recent version number from the last render in the output directory, increment it by 1, then use that value for the next render's version number.

Version Number

If Auto Version is disabled, the value in this field will be used as the version number for the render output if using the {version} token.

{level_name}

The name of the level the render is occurring in.

{sequence_name}

The Level Sequence Asset name.

{frame_rate}

The frame rate of the sequence, or the overridden frame rate if Use Custom Frame Rate is enabled.

{date}

Today's date, formatted by {year}.{month}.{day}.

{year}

The current year when the render begins.

{month}

The current month when the render begins.

{day}

The current day when the render begins.

{time}

The current time when the render begins, formatted by {hours}.{minutes}.{seconds}. Uses a 24 hour clock scale.

{frame_number}

The frame number of the sequence being rendered. This token will be stripped for any video output, as it is meant only for image sequence files.

{frame_number_shot}

The frame number of the shot being rendered. This token will be stripped for any video output, as it is meant only for image sequence files.

{frame_number_rel}

The frame number of the sequence being rendered, relative to 0 regardless of the frame start number. Useful if you have sequences that begin in negative regions. This token will be stripped for any video output, as it is meant only for image sequence files. If using time dilation, this value will be used for {frame_number} as well.

{frame_number_shot_rel}

The frame number of the shot being rendered, relative to 0 regardless of the frame start number. Useful if you have sequences that begin in negative regions. This token will be stripped for any video output, as it is meant only for image sequence files. If using time dilation, this value will be used for {frame_number_shot} as well.

{camera_name}

The currently active camera actor name in Sequencer.

{shot_name}

The name of the Shot Section in the Level Sequence, otherwise falls back to sequence asset names.

{render_pass}

Will be replaced with the name of the Render Pass the image is for during rendering. Automatically inserted if rendering multiple render passes to ensure final images have unique names.

{output_resolution}

The full output resolution, formatted by {width}_{height}.

{output_width}

The output resolution's width.

{output_height}

The output resolution's height.

{version}

The version number defined by either Auto Version or Version Number .

{ts_count}

The Temporal Sample count of your Anti-aliasing setting, if Anti-Aliasing is being used.

{ss_count}

The Spatial Sample count of your Anti-aliasing setting, if Anti-Aliasing is being used.

{shutter_timing}

The Shutter Timing property of your Camera setting, if Camera is being used.

{overscan_percentage}

The Overscan Percentage property of your Camera setting, if Camera is being used.

{tile_count}

The Tile Count property of your High Resolution setting, if High Resolution is being used.

{overlap_percent}

The Overlap Ratio property of your High Resolution setting, if High Resolution is being used.

Spatial Sample Count

Determines how many accumulated renders are in each Temporal Sample.

Temporal Sample Count

Determines how many time intervals each frame is divided into.

Override Anti-Aliasing

Enables you to choose a different anti-aliasing method using the Anti-Aliasing Method property.

Anti Aliasing Method

When Override Anti-Aliasing is enabled, this field will select the desired anti-aliasing method.

• None : Disables anti-aliasing. Recommended if you are using 8 or more spatial/temporal samples.

• FXAA : Smooths jagged pixels in screen-space rather than using data from the 3D meshes in the world, which is faster than TAA or MSAA, but less precise for fine details.

• TemporalAA : Uses Temporal Anti-Aliasing. This is the default algorithm for motion blur used in Unreal Engine which uses the information from previous frames to anti-alias the current frame. May cause ghosting, especially if a moving object is in front of a noisy background.

• MSAA : Not supported.

Use Camera Cut for Warm Up

When enabled, the system will determine the amount of warmup frames based on the Camera Cut section before the start time. This feature will cause these frames to be evaluated during warmup which enables you to have characters animate from their reference pose with cloth, or have particles/cloth appear to continue motion from the previous shot.

Render Warm Up Frames

If enabled, Movie Render Queue will submit each Engine Warm Up frame to the GPU to be rendered. This can be useful if your content must be rendered to properly warm up, such as GPU particles or virtual texturing. If disabled Engine Warm Up frames will tick the game thread but not submit renders to the GPU.

Render Warm Up Count

Controls the number of samples used to build the temporal history before rendering begins. When a camera cut or shot occurs, the temporal history used by TAA is cleared to prevent "ghosts" from the previous camera angle appearing. To allow anti-aliasing on the first frame, this history must be rebuilt. All samples are taken at the same time without ticking the engine between them. This happens immediately before rendering starts regardless of the number of Engine Warm Up Count frames or whether or not Render Warm Up Frames is enabled.

Engine Warm Up Count

Indicates the number of frames to run the engine for before rendering begins. These frames are not submitted to the GPU unless Render Warm Up Frames is enabled. Typically the warmup is useful when you need time for cloth physics, particles, or other dynamics to settle into the right position before rendering starts.

Shutter Timing

Shutter Timing controls the bias of the motion blur angle to either be before, during, or after a frame.

• Frame Open represents the shutter opening, so the motion blur represented is what comes after a frame in Sequencer.

• Frame Center has an equal bias between Frame Open and Close, causing motion blur to be centered between before and after frames.

• Frame Close represents the shutter closing, so the motion blur represented is what comes before a frame in Sequencer.

Overscan Percentage

Increasing this value will enable rendering additional pixels beyond the output resolution based on a percentage multiplied against the Output Resolution. The camera Field of view is also inflated proportionally to this percentage so that the original image within the non-overscanned region is maintained. This property is meant to be used primarily with the EXR output format, as it encodes the region information into a format unique to EXR. It will work with other formats but the final output resolution will be larger than expected and the framing of the shot will have changed.

Write All Samples

Enabling this will write every single render sample produced by the GPU to disk alongside the output so you can inspect the results of individual temporal or spatial sub-sample renders without accumulation.

Capture Frames with Render Doc

Enable this to specify a frame number on the Capture Frame property. Requires RenderDoc .

Capture Frame

Specify a sequence frame number to capture and it will automatically trigger RenderDoc on that frame and write the capture to disk where you can inspect visual issues.

Game Mode Override

Overrides the map's default game mode with another game mode. This is useful if the game's normal mode displays a UI or loading screen you do not want captured. By default the empty MoviePipelineGameMode is used which hides the player.

Cinematic Quality Settings

Automatically applies the Cinematic quality setting in the Engine Scalability Settings .

Texture Streaming

Determines what methods should be used to load textures in each frame.

Use LODZero

Enables the highest quality settings for meshes and particle systems, regardless of distance.

Disable HLODs

Disables Hierarchal LODS to use real meshes, regardless of distance.

Use High Quality Shadows

Enables some common shadow related settings to increase quality in renders.

Shadow Distance Scale

Multiplies the distance at which a shadow is visible on an object. Higher values mean shadows are visible for more distant objects.

Shadow Radius Threshold

Overrides the minimum on-screen size required for an object to cast shadows. Smaller values mean smaller objects will cast shadows.

Override View Distance Scale

Overrides the View Distance Scale for objects. Useful when the Max Draw Distance is already set to a certain value to improve in-game performance.

View Distance Scale

Sets the value for the scale if you override the default View Distance Scale.

Tile Count

Sets the number of tiles the image breaks into while rendering. Uses square formatting, so a 7680x4320 Output Resolution with Tile Count set to 2 will render four total 2x2 tiles at 1920x1080 each.

Texture Sharpness Bias

Biases the texture mip mapping to pick a higher resolution texture when it might normally not. A more negative number means the bias is more likely to select a higher detailed mipmap than it normally would, but, if the value is too high, it can cause a grainy image. The bias has no effect on textures that are already displaying their highest quality mipmap.

Overlap Ratio

Controls how much each tile overlaps each other. A value of 0.1 will cause a 10% overlap between the images that are blended together. This is particularly useful for Depth of Field, which normally produces a different result near the edges of images. Using this property makes rendering more time consuming, but can reduce seams between tiles.

Override Sub Surface Scattering

Some sub-surface scattering methods rely on Temporal Anti Aliasing for image history. Because TAA is not supported in high resolution tiling this option allows you to increase the number of samples to overcome the lack of image history.

Burley Sample Count

Number of samples to use for Burley sub-surface scattering.