Exporting individual measures as .png for educational videos
Hello,
I'm looking for some suggestions to improve this workflow.
I have been using MuseScore to make educational videos. I create a whole piece and then export it as a .png in horizontal continuous view with a transparent background to overlay over a video myself playing.
Then I animate it in a video editor so the individual measure I'm playing appears on screen over the video. However, this is a painstaking process to get the measures to line up properly.
I considered downgrading to musescore 3 for access to the image capture tool. That would allow me to quickly save each measure with the same sizing, but the image capture box doesn't stay fixed vertically so I still have to manually fine tune the measures' position in the video editor. I also considered creating a custom size page for a single measure and exporting each measure individually but it seems equally time-consuming.
Is anyone doing something similar or can you think of a better workaround for this?
Comments
Creating the custom page size takes a couple of extra minutes up front but then saves you a ton of time down the road. Definitely the way to go if you're doing more than a handful of these and need them to be consistent.
There are also third-party screenshot tools like ShareX or Greenshot that can do a better job of controlling the position and behavior of the capture.
In reply to Creating the custom page… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check these out.