Scene1, Scene2, and TheEnd are each very simple scenes with Text, a camera, and a lamp. Blender will not animate past the end of the 9 second AVI. IE - with all 4 elements in the sequence editor, the entire output AVI should be 21 seconds. But, the output AVI stops at the end of the 9 second AVI.
If I move the 9 sec AVI to the third element, then I get Scene1, Scene2, and the 9 sec AVI, but not TheEnd. If i remove the 9 sec AVI from the sequence, then the three scenes render just fine into the new, output AVI.
In the Scene window (F10), i’ve set the last frame to be the total frames in the sequence editor +1.
sounds like there’s a codec issue with that 9 second AVI not closing properly.
Fix #1: re-record the 9second avi to a raw uncompressed format (no codec).
Fix #2: record the first two elements to one avi, the last two to another avi, and then in a new scene, append the one avi to the other avi.
i dont use codecs except at the very end to compress the end result.
For what it’s worth, I don’t use movie files at all except at the very end. I find uncompressed PNGs to be the best thing to work with in the meantime. The Sequence Editor handles strips of still images very well—in fact, it handles them more easily than any other software I know of. I render all the stills for a shot into a directory together and then just grab them all into the Sequence Editor. This also makes it possible to abort rendering midway and still use what you’ve rendered, etc.
Yeah, it’s lossless in the same sense that a ZIP file uses lossless compression. You end up with the exact same information you started with, but in a smaller file size.
