Krita Timelapse Renderer (Premium) (Termux)

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Are you an artist? Do you like using Krita but hate that it cannot render your timelapse videos because Androids don't have ffmpeg for some reason? This flow is for you! I'm not sure anyone besides myself has faced this issue, but I decided to share anyways.

Krita must save its timelapse frames in 0/Krita. The frames must be saved as .jpg files. I recommend you enable automatic recording. Krita must be recording your art process for this flow to work.

You may have to enable accessibility services. Also Android likes to randomly withdraw permissions, you may have to re-enable them if you get artblock and don't use Krita for a while.

You must configure Termux and download ffmpeg before using this flow.

1- Execute the command

termux-setup-storage

2- Download ffmpeg with

pkg install -y ffmpeg

3- Create a shell command with

mkdir -p .termux/tasker

nano .termux/tasker/videoconvert.sh

4- Enter this command:

#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash

ffmepg=$PREFIX/bin/ffmepg

ffmpeg -f image2 -pattern_type glob -framerate 10 -i "*******.jpg" "render.mp4"

5- Save and quit.

Now you can start the flow, open Krita, open a file and start drawing. You will get a notification asking if you are done with your art. If you click yes, It will render your timelapse. Quitting Krita will cancel the notification.

When your timelapse is done rendering you will get the option to preview the video.

I recommend you delete your timelapse folders every once in a while, because this flow will create a new fiber for each timelapse directory. You may end up with 30 fibers at once which might cause issues.