


Video Playback & Export Reaper comes with a small free FFMPEG library that can produce videos with free codecs, but you can add other codecs by downloading and installing one of the large FFMPEG libraries for your system (Windows or OSX, no idea about Linux yet). Refer to the Section 20 of the manual on how to do this. Reaper can use different playback engines for different filetypes. You can always check what Reaper is currently using to play a video by checking the Source Properties of the video item in either the context menu of the item, or via the default shortcut, which is CTRL+F2 on Windows. Windows users need to download the 32-bit version of VLC if they're using the 32-bit version of Reaper and the 64-bit version of VLC if they're using the 64-bit version of Reaper.

Reaper will find it and use it for video playback by default. MacOS users just grab and install the most recent version of VLC. Get the version for your operating system. It will enable Reaper to play almost any video file out there.Ī free, open source player that Windows and MacOS users can download the latest version (v3.0.8 as of ) at this location. The easiest thing to do is to install the Video Lan Client player. The most up to date information on video playback and export is always available in
