Rendering problem

[JackDrama]

For some reason, when I rendered the scene in ".Avi" A:M was crashing a lot! And so I felt I had to ask you what's wrong in that. I also posted a screenshot of a frame I captured inside the software (using Render Mode "Q").

[itsjustme]

I'm not sure about v11.1 (that's what it says you're using above your avatar), but some codecs have caused problems recently...have you tried rendering the AVI as "Full Frames (uncompressed)"?

[zandoriastudios]

Could you be out of RAM?

[JackDrama]

Practicly I'm using 18.0b SSE4 now. But yes i used (uncompressed) but it didn't work. Weird, isn't it? By the way, I had almost 3 whole months to render videos. I suppose that's the problem. And yes I do have RAM.

[zandoriastudios]

I was just thinking that if the sequence was long, then you would have a lot of frames of video in RAM before it ever gets to compressing and saving as a video file.... I usually render as frames

[JackDrama]

Now I also tried to have ".TGA" image sequences but again It didn't work!

[robcat2075]

Cute characters!

 

(Why is that warning in Greek? What does it say?)

 

When you render does it always crash on the same frame?

[JackDrama]

1) That's what hapened when I pressed "OK". Is this a bug report or what?

2) There are also the render settings I used.

[Fuchur]

Because he is using the greek version of Windows and that warning is given by windows. Nothing to worry about there...

(it is in german for me, for instance...). It should be the typical "Program not responding"-stuff, right?

 

If you always have the problem at the same frame, you may want to leave that frame out or you may want to change something in your scene a little bit to see if it works after that.

 

See you

*Fuchur*

[robcat2075]

hmmm...

 

 

First, try turning off all the things that are ON on the Options tab and render one frame. If that works then turn the first one ON and render.

 

Keep turning things ON one at a time until you get a crash. Then we'll have at least a clue about what the problem might be.

[NancyGormezano]

2) There are also the render settings I used.

From the image you showed - it looks like you are still rendering to an AVI (movie.avi), which is not a TGA sequence. However, you are rendering with your resolution set to TGA.

 

You need to change the format to tga (or jpg, or png) for rendering a sequence of images, and make sure your filename says movie.tga or movie.jpg or movie.png.

[robcat2075]

From the image you showed - it looks like you are still rendering to an AVI (movie.avi), which is not a TGA sequence. However, you are rendering with your resolution set to TGA...

 

 

 

Good catch!

[JackDrama]

Unfortunately, nothing worked at all. Even at the simplest scenes I get the same problem!