See this video on how to set it up if you don't know how to do that. This means you need to add ffmpeg to your environment variables. ffmpeg needs to be found from the command line for this to work. Note to Windows users: the python script uses the command line for working with the video. Settings > Configure Krita > Python Plugin Manager. You will have to restart Krita for the plugin to show up in your plugin manager. Krita 4.2 comes with a python script importer to make it easy to add. Download the plugin as a ZIP file from the 'Clone or Download' option on this page. Once you have that working, then continue. If you haven't done that, see the instructions for the official documentation. This is generally needed to do things with animation in Krita and does most of the work for this plugin. You need to have FFMPEG installed/hooked up for this to work. This code will not be updated or maintained in the future.Ī Python plugin for Krita 4.2 that allows you to load a video for reference and import frames to your document.

I will keep this code here for reference, but you don't need to install this plugin any longer to get this functionality.

UPDATE : This plugin is now natively part of Krita as of Krita 5.0.

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