Let’s easily and quickly create a simple
cinematic scene using the unreal sequencer This powerful tool allows you to create in-game
cinematics with a specialized multi-track editor so you can dive deep into virtual production,
game animations, and much more… Don’t worry, it's really easy, and as always,
I recommend downloading a free pdf guide from the link in the description
This way you will have all the information, values, and steps from this video in one place
for future reference So Let’s start Just a quick setup
To easily follow this tutorial it’s a good idea to have the same interface
I use the default unreal engine interface If you want to have exactly the same interface
go to window Load Layout
And select the default editor layout Now Go file
Click new level And choose basic
To move around the editor hold down the right mouse button and use the W, A, S, and D keys
to move just like in a standard FPS game. Go up and down with E & Q keys
Save the level first in case it crashes Go to file, save the current level, name it,
and hit save Let’s add one simple object to the scene
Go green button Select shapes
Cube Hit end on your keyboard to land cube on the
floor Let me show you how to make a simple camera
movement with an unreal sequencer Go to the top and select add level sequence
Name it and save it Over here we will control our movie camera
Don’t worry about all of this it’s not that complicated
But first, we need to add a camera Go here and click the camera icon
If you try to move around you can see that we are inside the camera
This is excellent if you want to position the camera this way
But, what if you want to move elements in the editor?
You need to leave the camera control To do that click the camera icon next to the
cine camera actor Or you can see over here the eject icon to
leave the camera It’s the same
Click it And you can see that we have our camera here
and on the small window over here Now go back to the sequencer
If you accidentally close the sequencer Just press CTRL + SPACE to open the content
drawer and double-click the sequencer to open it back Sequencer works with key points
Key Points are moments in time that we manipulate to create the movie
But let me show you how easy is to do this Under cine camera actor make sure to select
transform Let’s position the camera something like
this With a cube in the center
Now press this button to add the key at the current time
Or hit ENTER on your keyboard You can see the red circle
Now move the playhead somewhere over here And move the camera closer to the object
Like this And hit ENTER to add a keyframe
It’s important to move playhead and then move the camera, otherwise, it won’t work
Hit this button to front to go to the start of the clip
Make sure to check out these controls because they will allow you to see your movie clip
in reverse, skip to a certain keyframe, and so on
Just hit play or hit SPACE on your keyboard to play a clip
You can see your movie animation in the camera view
If you don’t see it, make sure to select the camera in the outliner
Also, if you click on the playhead and move it you will see how the camera moves in the
real-time But let’s say you want to make the camera
faster or slower We can do this in two ways
The first one is to move your keys apart from each other
The longer the distance between keys the slower is playback
And vice versa If closer the key points the faster the playback
The second way is to add time dilation track To add it click the green plus button that
says track And select time dilation track
Over here select it and type in the number For example, 0.5 to make playback slower
This way you don’t need to worry how far away are the key points of the sequencer
To remove it, just RIGHT CLICK and select delete or hit DELETE on the keyboard
Great One thing to mention is when we hit play nothing
happens If you want your clip to start playing immediately,
select the sequencer in the outliner And enable this autoplay
If we now click the play button our clip will start right away
You can play with loop, play rate, offset, and so on
Let me show you now how to add more movement points and how to increase the duration of
the video clip To add additional camera movement just move
the playhead where you want And now select and move the camera
You can rotate it by pressing E And uncheck this option so we can rotate smoothly
without the camera snapping to the grid Make sure to add a key point
Ok Now add one more but, as you can see, we have
a problem We are at the end of the clip
So to increase the duration just select it and drag it
Double-click it to see it whole Also, select the red line and drag it to prevent
the clip to end too early Move the playhead
But now click this button to enter the camera And drive the camera far away from the object
And hit ENTER but make sure that only transform is selected
Ok Leave the camera and hit play to check out
the clip Great
Just to share one tip with you If you run into a problem and your camera
is not smooth select the camera component Select manual focus distance
Under the focus method select tracking And actor to track to be our cube or your
custom actor This way the camera will focus your actor
and make it smooth and focused The last thing to do is to export your video
clip Click Render movie settings
Over here choose the output format Resolution
And make sure to use compression otherwise the file size will be very, very large
Over here under the output directory select the folder where you want to save your video
You can always play with all these settings to change frame rate, format, and so on
And when you are ready just click capture movie and Unreal will start capturing the
movie And click open folder to check out your final
product If you like this kind of simple tutorial you
can check my other videos on materials, PCG, environment, or lightning
They are all the same, aimed at beginners, and cover everything step by step
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be sure to take it slow, don’t worry, and keep learning because the Unreal engine is
awesome See ya in some other video, bye-bye.
