trying to render video from stills but it is exporting as .jpgs

[Jean Haughey]

This is my first post, I'm a beginner to Photoshop. I'm trying to render a video from stills. At first Photoshop was exporting them as stills only, then I updated to PS 2020 and it was working, rendering MP4 files. Now it's not again, it's just creating a bunch of .jpgs. I'm stumped.

[Warren Heaton]

Do you have the stills assembled in the Timeline panel?

And are you using File > Export > Render Video...?

[Warren Heaton]

And... not knock Photoshop's animation capabilities, have you taken a look at Rush, Premiere Pro or After Effects?

[Jean Haughey]

No, it's just a stupid little project and I never play around with video. If I can't get it working it's no big deal; it's just really annoying me at this point!

[Jean Haughey]

Yes, the video plays in the Timeline panel and I use file-export-render video. It was working fine, exporting mp4 videos. I wanted to make it longer and figured out how to do that and now it's gone back to exporting them as a series of jpgs. 

This is what it looks like when I export. 

[davescm · Accepted solution]

You are exporting to a "Photoshop Image Sequence "which is a series of stills.  In that drop down choose "Adobe Media Encoder" then in Format pick the video format which will be H.264

Dave

[Jean Haughey]

That's it! Thank you so much Dave. You saved me a lot of frustration!!

[davescm]

You're welcome 🙂

Dave

[Lindazkewl]

I realize this thread is a few years old but I was having this same problem and this fixed it.  Thank you!!

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Are you saying you can't change the Render Video to MP4?

Here is what I did...

1. Load the images.
2. Create a Frame Animation and create Frames from Layers.
3. Export>Render Video to MP4; I adjusted the speed by adjusting the frame rate.

[Jean Haughey]

Thanks for your reply! I solved my issue but I will also try your method