I was testing if i could do a small mograph animation totally in blender without any intermediates. I first render my animation as a render sequence of tga images. Then I imported them to the compositor, tested a couple of post production setups and decide which suites me best. Now whenever i try to export a h.264 video file blender blender freezes at random frame each time. by the term “freeze”, i mean that just stop rendering any more frames. The console doesn’t display any errors it’s also “freezed”!
The only time i managed to output a video file in avi format is was only readable by VLC. Quicktime claimed that the file was corrupted.
Am i doing something terribly wrong or is some kind of bug!
Any help appreciated.
The problem is that the problem occurs also with other formats not just QuickTime. (mp4s,avis etc)! And there’s a part that i don’t understand…you need always the middleman (external software)?! even for that ridiculous easy task!!! …you mean i can use blender as video/post production/edditing even for something that basic!!!:(…I hope that’s not the case
I had a similar problem some time ago, that turned out to be a render bug. What version are you using and are you able to reproduce the error/freeze when rendering a simple scene of the default cube? Trouble shoot from there, it could be that there is another element corrupting the process.
Finaly submit a bug in the tracker if it is reproducible and you can supply a stand alone .blend for them to test.
Solved! I’ll say almost. What i did. I disabled all compositor nodes and render successfully! Enable again and render successfully at 3 different formats! I don’t know what went wrong but i can now export a video, that’s only playable by VLC and no other player.