Rendering only goes to 35 seconds?

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I have an animation that is 1 minute 36 seconds long that I’m trying to render. I’m rendering it as AVI Raw (I’m running Linux). The clip is 2521 frames long, and it looks as if it completes the entire rendering process. However, the file that results from the rendering is only 35 seconds long (topping out at a size of 2GB). Why does it render every frame, but only 35 seconds worth of these frames end up in the AVI file?

Please help. This is for a project that’s due later today. :frowning:

Attached is a screenshot of my current render settings. Anything I should adjust down there?

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32-bit OS’s have a max filesize of 2GB. render using AVI-JPG, not AVI-RAW. And use the PC presets; no need for 1kx800 image size.

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Wow! I did not even think of that. I feel stupid now. Anyway, thanks for reminding me of the file size limit. Can’t believe I didn’t consider that.

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better yet render to individual jpg (or png) files which you can then assemble in the video sequencer in no time.

so you can also split your rendering in differtent sessions and if something goes wrong you can restart at any given point in time.

good luck with your efforts.

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Any idea what programs exist for Linux that have this capability?

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Um … yeah … Blender … i.e. the Video Sequencer Window, check the user manual for how to use it , but it’s basically spacebar - add images - select all the images that were rendered, and it will automatically combine them into a “strip”.
Mike

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This will help me a lot. To combine them all into a movie file (ie avi) at the end, click “do sequence” in the rendering buttons window (buttons panel > scene > render buttons > do sequence. Then check the start and end frames, output format, etc, and hit “anim”.

Thank god for wikipedia (I looked it up).