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Hi guys. I'm new to this forum (and software) so please be patient with me. I'm trying to render out my animation at 1920 x 1080 in QT and its starting to render nothing but the first frame. When I first attempted this, all was fine, the entire animation scene rendered out perfectly. But suddenly its just rendering frame '0', although I haven't touched any of the settings and the scene is actually 166 frames in length. I can't see anything that should change this... As 'Animation', Mark In '0', Mark out '166', etc. I've even tried to do it on two separate machines (thinking RAM might be a problem) but it just refuses to go beyond the 1st frame for some reason. Can anyone please advise? Many thanks!

Nobody can help you unless you give us more information: exact TVP version. including all 5 digits, OS, 32 or 64 architecture etc. More about your computer size etc. There's a list somewhere that tells you all about this. Something like "What we need to know before you ask a question:.

I think you didn't choose the option "as = animation", just under "Browse"

I think I've had the same problem quite many times.
I haven't been able to pinpoint the reason, but for me, untapping the "key frame every" from the quicktime settings solved the problem.

Actually Karl, your suggestion worked perfectly! All is rendering perfectly after I unchecked the "key frame every" box! (And for the record Paul... I'm Using TVP Pro 10.0.7 on Mac 10.7.5 with 4GB of memory.) Thanks one and all!

Tonymation wrote:Hi guys. I'm new to this forum (and software) so please be patient with me. I'm trying to render out my animation at 1920 x 1080 in QT and its starting to render nothing but the first frame. When I first attempted this, all was fine, the entire animation scene rendered out perfectly. But suddenly its just rendering frame '0', although I haven't touched any of the settings and the scene is actually 166 frames in length. I can't see anything that should change this... As 'Animation', Mark In '0', Mark out '166', etc. I've even tried to do it on two separate machines (thinking RAM might be a problem) but it just refuses to go beyond the 1st frame for some reason. Can anyone please advise? Many thanks!

EDIT: Oh, I notice that someone else answered your question as I was posting mine. Well, anyway, yes, it appears it was the infamous QT bug "Key Frame Every ____ Frames" .



Hi, Tony White , nice to see you here.

If you are exporting using the H.264 compression codec be aware that there is a bug in Quicktime that will only export a single frame if the box next to "Key Frame Every ____ Frames" in the QT export configuration settings is checked. Make sure that box is UNCHECKED. (you access the QT export settings by clicking on the little "gear" icon next to where it says Format: Quicktime )

Quicktime H.264 export settings:



Your other option is to use the TVPaint Internal .AVI export engine . Set it to export as Animation, Format = AVI (Internal) , Mode = Motion JPEG , Quality = between 50% to 70% seems to work fine for most things , especially for a quick test . You can adjust the export quality % to whatever looks good to you. The higher the percentage the larger the file size. (of course for ultimate image quality you can export all finished color frames as a lossless .PNG image sequence and load the image sequence into movie editing software )


Internal .AVI export settings:




Exported as .PNG image sequence , then open the image sequence in movie editing software -






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Thanks David. That's really valuable info. I'll try all your suggestions, just for comparison. Thanks again! Tony.

Oh, that Tony White - the one whose books I recommended for years ... nice to see you here!

Nice to be here slowtiger... and thanks for recommending my books. I don't actually have a regular involvement with TV Paint right now but I'm looking to change that in the near future, hence the rendering question.

slowtiger wrote:Oh, that Tony White - the one whose books I recommended for years ... nice to see you here!

There can be only ONE!

I wish there weren't only just one unfortunately... I could get so much more done!