Unreal Engine 5.4: Take Recoder Driven Cinematics

In this video we create a cinematic driven from data captured by take recorder during a gameplay session. We explore topics like the camera crane, motion blur and extracting take recorder data to a proxy blueprint actor for ease of use.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:22 - Project Recap / Setup
00:41 - Recreating my drive path with rings
01:03 - Setting up game mode for offroad vehicle
01:30 - Using Take Recorder to capture gameplay
02:36 - Adding CineCamera and Camera Crane
03:48 - Animating The Crane and setting up sequence
05:31 - Animating The Camera with Automatic Keyframing
07:41 - Setting up VDB (Smoke) Animation In Sequencer
08:43 - Example of problem (No Wheels / Suspension)
09:01 - Creating Proxy Offroad Car Actor
10:02 - Adding our Proxy Offroad Car to the sequence
11:18 - High Quality Motion Blur For Wheels
11:57 - Outro
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[@hyperlizard]

You always bring something new and fresh. So precise and on point with information. Love these UE vidz man. Always learn a lot. Thank you

[@vidayperfumes7514]

Awesome video , so much information , Thank you

[@omegakenshin]

great tutorial, thank you for sharing this, I learned a lot!

[@Rforge]

Glad to hear that! Thank you :)

[@srgmt]

This is really useful information, thank you very much for sharing

[@HussinKhan]

There is always something I pickup from your videos Shaun. Thank you!

[@PolyRidge]

damn... I get it now... I have never understood why you are meant to use a crane rig in 3D software... because the camera can just go and be anywhere...
But putting those real world/physical limits on the camera gives it that realistic feel, not to mention very smooth movements...
Thanks for another fantasti tutorial!!!

[@Rforge]

You can sorta avoid the rig and just animate rotation but the rig has another amazing benefit, pre production
When you use the rig you can tell teams on a real shoot how far the crane needs to be or angles etc, check out this video
czcams.com/video/SdJ9WgEuQ4k/video.htmlsi=0gcRSEG6cgdyVdED

[@PolyRidge]

@@Rforge AH!!! That’s even smarter!!! I’ve never even thought about that… usually my thought is about how to take reality and pipe it into digital… but using digital to tell reality how to function is GENIUS!!! So cool, thank you for sharing!!!

[@BlankerWahnsinn]

Nice tut, for the next video, a tutorial for best rendersettings including console variables would be great

[@Rforge]

Hi !
These actually change depending on what's being rendered. In our case the motion blur was the only thing needed
But I will say movie render cue with anti aliasing turned off and samples 2/8 is a great place to start with lumen

[@IamSH1VA]

This video was packed with lot of cool tricks and knowledge, with such a good practical example.
Thanks...
Just one question this Take Recorder works on third person character or any ingame mode actor, right?
Then, this would so useful for creating quick simple Previs

[@Rforge]

Thank you for the feedback glad you liked the video !
Yeah it works on anything with live input even a phone that is driving a camera in virtual production (for example)

[@FPChris]

How do I record a SpaceMouse dronelike movement?

[@gamebushrd]

Why when I press render (local) the camera activation is the one that comes from the drivable pawn? but in she sequencer everything looks at it should?

[@Rforge]

Hi so I mention in the video about the camera cuts track have you bound the right camera during render ?

[@gamebushrd]

@@Rforge yes but still get the same result. I use a different Pawn, though.

[@user-ey2kx4jx7k]

My camere is unataching fro. Camera tig not from tut jist a problem i have

[@Rforge]

Is it a child of the camera rig ?

[@user-ey2kx4jx7k]

No i just attach it