Export File as .mp4 using something like ffmpeg

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Right now I’m exporting to PNG sequences and then using CLI to make video out of it for Instagram or showing to clients:

ffmpeg -y -framerate 100 -stream_loop 2 -i ~/Desktop/sequences/%d.png -profile:v baseline -level 3.0 -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf scale=1080:-1 -sws_flags neighbor -r 30 ~/Desktop/export.mkv
ffmpeg -y -i ~/Desktop/export.mkv -c copy ~/Desktop/export.mp4
rm ~/Desktop/export.mkv

I’ll appreciate if option like this could be in exporting section of Aseprite itself.

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This would require bundling a library most people don’t need. This seems better done as a script or plugin that just presents a GUI for the options and then runs the appropriate command (using os.execute() presumably).

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Sometime ago I thought about that an extension could be created distributing the ffmpeg.exe (on each platform): Support to export to video files (avi, mp4, etc.) · Issue #629 · aseprite/aseprite · GitHub

I could try to prepare something for Windows as a first step, what do you think people?

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I personally use gif for posting on internet. So I don’t think I would use such a feature.

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Well, I would dig to be able to export to MP4 (or similar) video. I can’t send GIFs on Whatsapp unfortunately.

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More than a year late, but I would love to have that feature ready in Aseprite to export files as intended instead of relying on a site that might butcher some frames or quality. Any updates on this?

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Perhaps this could be done with a lua script that invokes ffmpeg from the users $PATH. I don’t know if the lua scripts have access to execute external apps, would need @dacap to weigh in.