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Two problems with rendering movies? (please help)

gwennovynnegwennovynne Posts: 40
edited December 1969 in New Users

Okay so I've had a LOT of problems with rendering movies on Daz3d. I'm running windows 8 on a Gateway computer with a terabyte hard drive. I have a 64bit computer, but have the 32bit version of Daz. I'll try to explain it as best I can. :)

To start, the program closes down completely whenever I try rendering certain videos. I had a short (ten second, maybe) video of a model (V4) dancing, and the program completely shut down on me. She was wearing a simple pair of pants and a shirt, which was kept simple because I was just experimenting, and basic hair and textures. Everything was from the Daz3d official store, including the aniBlocks I was using. I decided to retry, so I loaded up Genesis without any textures, clothing, hair, etc, and put a basic aniBlock on the timeline. It took a while, but it rendered just fine. I figured maybe it was a one time thing, so I went on. I just recently tried rendering another short video using Daz LipSync and V4. Everything played just fine when I tested it out. The scene was simple, just V4 with hair, clothes, and a skin texture, and a basic stage prop; Victoria herself only moved her arm once. No lights or anything! When I hit "render movie" the program shut down completely once more. I tried redoing it with various props and whatnot, but it seems whenever I try to load anything more than a few simple items, it can not render it. I finally got just the lip-sync V4, no props/scenes, to render. It's not really any good without the background. I was going to just green-screen it, but that brings me to my second problem....

The videos I've managed to render can't be opened/converted by most movie making software. Whenever I try opening it with Sony Vegas, Windows Movie Maker, or Adobe After Effects, it fails. I tried to convert it using a movie converter I have, but it said "failed" immediately. I managed to convert it with an online converter, but the animation quality went waaaaay down. Any ideas on how to convert it or make it work? Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you :) (and sorry for the novel post, I feel like Charles Dickens. haha)

Comments

  • TjebTjeb Posts: 507
    edited December 1969

    In stead of render to movie, does the program shut down when you want to render a normal image?

    It is common practice to render to a image sequence rather than a movie.
    But if a normal image render already gives a problem there might be something else going on.

  • gwennovynnegwennovynne Posts: 40
    edited December 1969

    It works for a normal image, thankfully! Really? I didn't know that, I figured it would take forever to render 165 frames so I just did a movie file. Thank you so much for the advice! :)

  • gwennovynnegwennovynne Posts: 40
    edited December 1969

    Update: Image series didn't work either. It shut down after about 2 seconds. I don't get an error or anything; It just disappears.

  • TjebTjeb Posts: 507
    edited December 1969

    No, it is basically the same. if you render to movie, all the frames are stored somewhere and after creating the movie (usually .avi) the frames are deleted by the program. So there is not a noticable difference in render time, but in case something goes wrong, you can start all over again.

    I did this today for a project, rendered to image serie, created an avi with VirtualDub (free).
    http://youtu.be/iA_xs8TWcVo

    I have no idea why DAZ is shutting down. Is this from recent, or you have a new system?

  • gwennovynnegwennovynne Posts: 40
    edited December 1969

    I tried it a second time and now it's super slow, but working! Thank you again :) My computer is a couple months old, but I installed Daz recently and it's been working fine. I juuuust tried rendering movies though so I can't say really, lol

  • TjebTjeb Posts: 507
    edited December 1969

    Render settings and light set-up make a big difference in render time.

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