Expoting/video issues

[warman343]

I've got a 15min animation done with a wave sound file and every time when the exporting is done the video won't play. Even when I take out the wave sound file it won't work. Windows Media Player gives me an error saying it can't play, then when I look at the avi movie file that I just exported, it gives me the size, frame width/height, rating, etc.. the only thing it doesn't tell me is the length, so I suspect I has something to do with the exporting because earlier I had some similar problems however found a solution but not this time.

Here are the list of programs I'm using to make this animation:
Anime Studio Pro 8
Windows Media Player
ITunes (converting into wav)

I have a feeling that the animation maybe too long to export completely, I do hope I'm wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

[3deeguy]

Try exporting just a quarter or half of the video. You can also try Quicktime. I sometimes get errors too. I just do it over because it may just work the next time.

[warman343]

Thanks, seems to work when I lower the length. just wish it could do the whole animation.

[3deeguy]

I have ASP9.5 and I may be pushing the limits because I started duplicating group folders. Rather than exporting several short videos and reassembling them in a video editor I placed chunks of animation in group folders so I can move them around with the sequencer. I've now got a ton of folders and managing all that data is becoming a challenge. I also started using Notes as bookmarks.
At the moment I've only got 3 minutes, 30 seconds and I'm not quite at the halfway mark. We'll see how it goes.

[warman343]

I've manage to get half of my animation exported(7min/30sec), although it turned out really weird. might have been when I was either moving the window around or having it minimized. think I'll be fine if I don't mess with it when I export it again. the animation that I'm making is from a group that does roll play, I've taken up the challenge to animate their roll play and I got a lot messages to do it, I too have want to see it animated and I'm loving it so far.

Here's the link for the Roll Play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUcGZ2u ... fy&index=1

Here's what I have so far for animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrEZqRA ... 1eODa1Md0g

[warman343]

Great, I think my animation might be corrupted or something, when its done exporting and plays the animation, it shows 2 different parts of the animation stuck for the entire video. I've tried reloading Anime Studio pro, taking out the sound, and even tried different compression options. there is something I can do that'll be quick and easy, but may not look very good. the last I want to do is start over from the beginning.

[3deeguy]

Great, I think my animation might be corrupted or something, when its done exporting and plays the animation, it shows 2 different parts of the animation stuck for the entire video. I've tried reloading Anime Studio pro, taking out the sound, and even tried different compression options. there is something I can do that'll be quick and easy, but may not look very good. the last I want to do is start over from the beginning.

Your first post said 15 minutes of animation. I would not even want to think about starting from scratch. I also hope the file is backed-up. I wonder if you could do something like export it in smaller clips using "avi uncompressed"? You would have to reassemble the clips in an external movie editor.

[warman343]

unfortunately its not backed up. I just did a test were I exported only 5 seconds of the animation(with a wav.file) using full frames(uncompressed): no problems. when I did it at 15mins it didn't even play the video so I may just have to play around until I get the right length to export it at. keep in mind that I've only got half of my animation done(total of ~30 min), and I've got 4 more episodes to animate.

[warman343]

well, its corrupted somehow. either I start from scratch (making a new file) or delete and remake all the animations that where set up and hope that'll fix it.

[slowtiger]

Before you throw everything away, try and import from that old project into a new one.

[warman343]

The result is the same. I think before I scrap everything, I'm going to try one last thing and that is keeping the layers that I have and just deleting the animation then recreating them. Another thing I'll do is record what I have, that way it'll be easier to recreate it. Even after all this and possibly other projects that I may do and it still doesn't work, I'll just reinstall Anime Studio Pro8.

[warman343]

before I did anything, I went back and tried exporting it again only 2 mins at a time using full frames(uncompressed). Result wasn't very good, the first 15 seconds showed something I can't quite describe; like scenes within scenes, however after that the video returned to normal. Then I exported the same 2 mins but this time using Microsoft Video 1 (compression quality: 75). the video had no problems only that the quality wasn't as good as it being uncompressed. Going to stick with this until I continue the other half of the animation.