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Technical discussions => General discussion => Topic started by: hugo on March 02, 2014, 12:54:57 PM

Title: Keyshot has stopped working?
Post by: hugo on March 02, 2014, 12:54:57 PM
Its a real gamble, its a toss up. Question....Will my Turntable Animation AVI be processed or not?
Right now the odds are about 50 / 50.
The AVI file gets written at the end of the rendered frame process. So I either get an AVI I can save or I get
(see attachment). Some rendering files for some reason never get processed, while some make it after several additional rendering attempts.
Title: Re: Keyshot has stopped working?
Post by: LiteHold on March 02, 2014, 02:38:55 PM
Did you render individual frames as well?

Title: Re: Keyshot has stopped working?
Post by: thomasteger on March 03, 2014, 05:08:32 AM
This happens when you render out a preview?
Title: Re: Keyshot has stopped working?
Post by: hugo on March 03, 2014, 11:14:38 AM
Quote from: LiteHold on March 02, 2014, 02:38:55 PM
Did you render individual frames as well?

Yes, today I rendered a VR, after which I rendered an Animation of the same scene
(see attachment). Its a bit annoying after 1.5 hrs of rendering not to get an AVI file.
Title: Re: Keyshot has stopped working?
Post by: thomasteger on March 03, 2014, 05:13:48 PM
You will need to reduce the time per frame in the settings of the timeline.
Title: Re: Keyshot has stopped working?
Post by: hugo on March 04, 2014, 08:44:17 AM
Quote from: Thomas Teger on March 03, 2014, 05:13:48 PM
You will need to reduce the time per frame in the settings of the timeline.

FYI: I have not changed the default KS animation cycle of 5 sec/360 degree for any of my animations.
In fact I though it might have to do with the number of triangles KS has to render, but as you can see in my attachment, which contains 3 examples,
File size or number of triangles appears to play NO part if an AVI is created. What causes KS to crash, is still a puzzle.
Title: Re: Keyshot has stopped working?
Post by: thomasteger on March 05, 2014, 06:34:17 AM
If it crashes again, can you check C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Temp\KeyShotPreviewFrames\KeyShotPreviewVideo.avi? We trying to narrow this down.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Keyshot has stopped working?
Post by: hugo on March 08, 2014, 05:00:59 PM
I'm getting a bit nervous not about the time it will take, but more importantly if after all this time, the file will be saved to an AVI file (see the attached  fractal)
Title: Re: Keyshot has stopped working?
Post by: thomasteger on March 10, 2014, 05:34:06 AM
We will look into it. You do know that you are only rendering out a preview?
Title: Re: Keyshot has stopped working?
Post by: hugo on March 10, 2014, 09:58:14 AM
Quote from: Thomas Teger on March 10, 2014, 05:34:06 AM
We will look into it. You do know that you are only rendering out a preview?
A was going to do a simple turntable, using the default animation wizard settings

You are aware this great fractal is from the KS site?
https://www.keyshot.com/keyshot-pi-day-fractal-download/2013/
I would also like to find out how this fractal was made into an obj. :)
Title: Re: Keyshot has stopped working?
Post by: hugo on March 10, 2014, 10:42:37 AM
It may well be that the animation AVI creation problem is related to the PREVIEW only.

I'm going to do animation from the RENDER TAB :)
So in 2.5hr.  at 70sec/frame X 124frame on my machine, KS should produce an AVI
Title: Re: Keyshot has stopped working?
Post by: thomasteger on March 10, 2014, 01:53:02 PM
Correct.
Title: Re: Keyshot has stopped working?
Post by: hugo on March 11, 2014, 08:41:58 AM
Quote from: hugo on March 10, 2014, 10:42:37 AM
I'm going to do animation from the RENDER TAB :)
So in 2.5hr.  at 70sec/frame X 124frame on my machine, KS should produce an AVI
Voila! it worked..... :)