I am really new to Blender. Right now, I am using Blender 2.55 beta.
I recently created animation. When I render the animation, it just gives me the image.
The animation works when I play it in 3D view. Does anyone have suggestions on what to do?
Thanks
-jd
Hmmm… I’m pretty new to Blender myself, but here are some things to consider.
Are the start and end frame values set to the start and end of the animation (“Render” tab, “Dimensions”, and “Frame Range”)?
Did you render the animation (Ctrl f12) or render the current frame (f12)?
In order to save the animation, you must set the “Output” folder (in the “Render” tab) to the directory where you wish your animation to be placed.
I hope this was helpful. If none of these fix your problem, specifics would be appreciated. 
The start and end frame values are good.
And I rendered the animation (Ctrl + F12)
But still no luck. 
Well… (Pauses as I animate something) I’m not sure why it wouldn’t work. Can you attach the .blend file?
What about your stepping (next to start and end values in the render tab)? In most situations it is set to 1.
The stepping is set to 1. Now im having problems attaching the .blend file :mad:
Ill try to get it to you as soon as possible.
?Can you maybe message me your e-mail?
Sure no problem. I understand.
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Also, are you waiting until the entire render is finished? Not just a single frame?
I actually just realized that right now.
Ive been waiting, and now I’ve actually just finished uploading my animation to my files.
Is the waiting time usually really long?
It depends on your CPU, RAM, and how complex your animation is. I guess that’s one of the things I should have asked. 
What is long for you?
1080p@25fps for instance needs 25 frames for a second video.
5 minute animations are the longest I made so far, that´s ~7500 frames.
For fast frames with a decent quality I got ~25 seconds, for some HQ frames with lots of reflections and stuff i got ~12 minutes throughout various projects an an average quadcore machine with 4gb memory.
So rendering a second of animation varies from ~11 minutes to 5 hours.
For 1 minute it´s 11 hours to 12.5 days
For 5 minutes it is 2.3 days to 2 Months.
Not doable on a single machine, that´s why you use renderfarms for animations and distribute the frame rendering to several machines.
Take the 2.4 days for 5 minutes, with 10 quadcore machines it only takes 5 and a half hour.
That´s just the way it is and really complex stuff can take up to 30-60 minutes for a frame and beyond. It really depends on your scene setup and render settings.
You just have to make the best with what hardware you got… use buffershadows and not raytraced shadows… fake reflections rather than raytrace them… use approximated AO rather than raytraced, replace high poly stuff with normal maps… there are a quadrillion tricks and hacks, especially in animation to make it look good enough, so no one notices you hacked and tricked because it is animated anyways.
It is part of the art.
When you do an animation you can go to one frame where lot´s of stuff is happening and make a testrender with F12, just a single frame.
After that you multiply the frametime by 25 or 30 depending if you got PAL or NTSC and you know whats the average worst case time for 1 second of animation.
The animation render worked fine for me. Be sure your output folder is a valid directory. In addition, if you are getting an error message please post it…
By the way, I went ahead and rendered it for you, in case your problems persist. I’ll upload it to filedropper when it’s done.
The render is done. I’m uploading it to filedropper right now.
http://www.filedropper.com/tronfinished00010230
For some reason the avi file doesn’t play in Windows Media Player, but it works fine in Quicktime.