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Error in rendering out project
Greetings guys,
I’m working off a tutorial, once completed I added a spline, attached a camera, set a target and I’ve got a nice sweep through the project, however, I cannot seem to render out what the target camera is viewing as it is moving along the spline, all that is rendered is a view of the project with a moving background (background shouldn’t be moving) that does’t correspond to anything the viewer window displays. I have ‘Use Render View’ set, I’ve got my actual project pane view set to the camera from frame 0, and my render settings appear to be correct.
Any guesses?
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I tried again to render out the project, 900 frames came out as a 0:00 quicktime movie consisting of a single screenshot that I guess rendered out 900 times, I’m still guessing here.
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Can you post a screen shot of the OUTPUT and SAVE settings for your render?
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Tim Shetz
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Output settings capture.
Save settings are 1080 at 29.9
Quicktime Movie file
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Since I don’t have your project to look at, please forgive the following questions if they are stupid:
The camera is indeed animated along the spline, correct? I can see the align to spline tag on the camera and that the camera is active, but I have no way of telling if there are keyframes set.
I also see the target tag on the camera. What do you have set as your target?
As far as it rendering a single frame, can you post a screen shot of the SAVE section of the render settings as well? Was it a single quicktime movie of just the one frame?
In your original post, you mentioned the background moving. Did it at some point render a full 900 frame movie?
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Tim Shetz
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Save settings screen cap;
No stupid questions at all.
The camera is animated along the spline yes, the one discrepancy (now that you mention it) is that there are no keyframe markers on the timeline, I’m not sure how to account for this, perhaps that is my issue?
The camera target is the hypernurbs object in which my sphere is a child of, to create the alien cell from the tutorial I followed.
I did render out a 900 frame project, as my original post entails, it was from an angle that was never used in the project and my background was moving, which it should not have been.
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Hmmmm. Seems like everything is ok. I would make a few suggestions.
First: try changing the default setting from HDV1080 29.97 to HDTV1080 29.97
This will change your size from 1440×1080 to 1920×1080.Second: Change the coded you are using for Quicktime. Try PNG.
This is just to see if it will render using something different, or if you have a bigger issue.
I’ll mention this just because: I teach Cinema 4D and when my students try to render to the desktop, they sometimes have issues. It usually has to do with admin rights on the machines at school, but I always recommend rendering to a folder somewhere on your hard drive just in case.
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Tim Shetz
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Well, I made the changes you suggested and came up empty. Switching to PNG simply created a massive amount of single frame shots all from frame 0, changing to HDTV 1080 also had no effect. Any other thoughts?
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Is it possible for you to post your project file?
Without looking at it, I have no other suggestions short of reinstalling Cinema.
What version of Cinema are you using?
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Tim Shetz
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