Discovering the Movie Render Queue plugin
Across the last Unreal Engine 4 versions and the first Unreal Engine 5 release, Epic Games has introduced Movie Render Queue, a new built-in plugin that allows us to manage in a more “offline way” our rendering setup. The Movie Render Queue plugin has been created to encourage users to use Unreal Engine 5 in cinematic productions outside the gaming industry.
Movie Render Queue is a plugin, so we need to activate it inside the All Plugins window (as we have already done a lot of time during this book). As always, the Engine will ask us to restart:

Figure 13.4 – Enabling the Movie Render Queue plugin inside the All Plugins window
Once we have reloaded the Engine, we can open the Movie Render Queue plugin in two ways:
- Inside the Window menu, under the Cinematics category, we can find the Movie Render Queue option:

Figure 13.5 – Movie Render Queue...