Working with the Video Sequence Editor - Mastering Blender - page 807

Figure 11-39 Sequencer selected
As is always the case when rendering animations, you have various choices in the format to render to. You
can render to still frames or to video. When you select a video format to render to, a new Encoding panel ap-
pears in the Render properties window. From here you can select an audio codec to render with; the default,
None,includes noaudio,butchangingittosomething likeMP3orFlac will include audio.Whatisbestforyou
dependsonthecodecsyouhaveinstalled andotherfeatures specific toyouroperatingsystem.Ihavefoundthat
selecting Xvid-encoded video and MP3-encoded audio with the Multiplex audio option does a very good job of
outputting synced sound and video .avi files on both Mac and Windows. Do some experimenting to find out
which combination works best for you.
You can also add text burn-ins to your video by checking the check box on the Stamp panel, as shown in
Figure 11-40 . Selected information will be stamped automatically onto the upper-left corner of your video.