How can I record a video using Scratch and have it in a project?

There's no feature built in. You could try and scan the screen using the touching colour block and store the frames, though. This method is quite limiting in both speed and amount of data needing to be stored.

What do you want to do with a recorded video?

I wanted to record myself speedrunning a mission in the game Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, timelapse it and add music

Scratch doesn't support video formats like .mp4. There are ways to import FMVs, but this often results in very poor quality video, and may result in asset size limits being hit.

How do you import an FMV?

Catnamics wrote:

How do you import an FMV?

FMV isn't a file format, it means full-motion video, and there are multiple ways to do so. I'm just going to let someone else explain how since they probably could explain it better than I can.

Ok thanks

TheGlassPenguin wrote:

this often results in very poor quality video, and may result in asset size limits being hit.

Go to the link in my signature and select “Trailer” to know what they mean.
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First, you need to have the recording. You can screen record with QuickTime Player or something like that.

Now that you have the mp4 file, you can use an mp4 to gif converter to convert it into a gif. Now, upload the gif into a sprite. This may take a couple of minutes, and may crash your computer a couple of times. This likely will not work on iOS devices. When the video is uploaded, use this code to play the animation costume-by-costume:

switch costume to [Video1 v]//first frame
set [frame v] to [1]
repeat (amount of costumes)//or the amount of frames
change [frame v] by (1)
switch costume to (join [Video] (frame))
end

This code is necessary because, at least when I was uploading a gif like this, the costumes got mixed all around, so instead of “1,2,3,4,5,” it would be like “1,2,4,3,5,” which looks like bad animation.

Take the following with a grain of salt, because I haven't actually done this before:

Now, you have to get the sound from the mp4 by using a mp4 to mp3 converter. Upload the sound into a sprite. Make sure the sound file is less than 10 mb or the project won't safe. If it is greater than 10 mb, you can snip the song into pieces in the scratch sound editor. Now, play the sound when the animation starts, are you're all good to go!

Important: you will need to upload hundreds to thousands of costumes depending on the lengths and framerate of your video. Because of this, add a suggestion in the instructions to view it on turbowarp.

Hello everyone. I have a question(obviously), currently I am working on a game with cloud variables and world records and I was wondering if there is a way to make a ghost or a replay of the world record for example. I am planning on adding a menu where you can have a ghost appear so you can see the world record or really any record and how it was done. In summary is there any way to add a video of gameplay that can be recorded in a project and then watched?

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