Source FilmMaker natively supports Source assets, letting you make videos about your favourite Source games without needing to convert all assets. (Maps often have to be converted, though, but other things tend to work well enough most of the time without conversion.)It's also generally considered to be the easiest animation software to learn (but of course still not easy, everything else is just harder to learn), with it both letting you use keyframes as seen in other animation programs, or a time-based animation method, where there's no such thing as a keyframe, and all animation curves are just saved automatically for each point where they change. Plus there's also a 'game mode', that lets you record what you do inside a 'dulled-down' version of Team Fortress 2. (See to see what I mean by 'time-based' and 'game mode'. And in either case, see them anyway.)Besides that, it also renders super fast compared to other rendering programs, at the cost of not having extremely high quality, due to it being based on a game engine (which is supposed to sacrifice quality for performance in order to render in real-time, although the quality is still pretty high if used right, while the performance isn't nearly as good as a normal Source game).

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Video Formats¶ These formats are primarily used for compressing rendered sequences into a playable movie (they can also be used to make plain audio files). A codec is a little routine that compresses the video so that it will fit on a Blu-ray, or be able to be streamed out over the Internet, over a cable, or just be a reasonable file size.