So I’ve animated my scene using the divx codec. I see it encode, I can play the final output, but I can’t find the actual file on my computer! The play animation tells me is in myWorkingDir/render/ folder with a number name.avi, but there is nothing there. Is this because I downloaded the free divx codec (5.1)? Thanks!
no it isn’t
when you render to an avi if you don’t specify a name it is something like:
0001-0250.avi
where 1 and 250 are the first and last frames respectively.
If you change the location it saves to you can name the avi whatever you want, or have the name and the number
\\render/blah for blah0001-0250.avi
\\render/blah.avi for blah.avi
z3ro,
I can save it to whatever I want, but the problem is, the AVI file is not showing up in my directory. I can’t find it! Yet blender will play the movie.
For example, I have an animation titled Gus. Its the tutorial from the online documentation. I make Gus walk. Then I select AVI codec and Divx 5.1. Then I change the file name to Gus.avi. Hit Anim. Divx encodes it and then I hit play. Gus is walking. I can see the file name in the play window d:\projects\3D\blender\Gus\gus.avi. I browse to that directory, no file. Any suggestions?
ok, i found them. they are in d:\projects\3d\render\ hmmmmm, thanks for the help
In the rendering buttons F10, to the right, there’s a column with the header “File path”. The first row shows the path to the folder where your image will be stored. Enter it manually in the large bouton or use the small one to the left to open a file select window and find or create the folder you want.
You can make it permanent using ctrl+u of course.
Jean