Black Screen When Rendering

[Shadow]

So, Guys...

I Was Starting to make an animation about runefortress, runescape + TF 2

and i was making the intro, after i did it, i tried to render it, and it doesn't goes, the render is just a black window, nothing else, no fadein, nothing!

what the did happened now?!

[Capt Fuzzy]

Make sure you are in the clip editor and have camera1 selected before rendering...

[Shadow]

i did it already, on the main option where you can add vignetes and audio, it's set to camera 1, everything is working while viewing the animation, but when i renderize, it's just a black screen, im sending to verify the files, do this may fix the glitch?

[Zappy]

What are you rendering it as? AVI, MP4, MOV, or an image sequence?

[Shadow]

.MOV

[Shadow]

It Was Working Well Before this glitch happened

[Zappy]

Originally posted by Shadow:

.MOV

This indicates 2 problems. Firstly, you have QuickTime installed. And QuickTime is an actual security risk for computers. (Yes, you should un-install it.) Plus the end result is not nearly as reliable nor good-looking as an image sequence render.

And secondly, you're not doing an image sequence render. An image sequence render will output lots of images and a sound file. You can then use almost any video editor (besides Windows (Live) Movie Maker) to combine the images and sound into a video file (which can be MOV if you want, too, as video editors might not need QuickTime for MOV support, and their MOV implementations are better than Source FilmMaker's).

A guide on doing so using Blender (which is free and also on Steam) can be found here:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=375229570

[Shadow]

hmm, it's not that, it semms


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1153143756&fileuploadsuccess=1

[Shadow]

it seems that it's not the only thing, even image rendering in all other animations are just black screen, now wtf happened with sfm??

[Shadow]

Well, you were right man

it was Quick Time, i just re-instaled it and it's working back again

[surfer171]

Originally posted by Shadow:

Well, you were right man

it was Quick Time, i just re-instaled it and it's working back again

Why reinstalling? @zappy clearly states it being a security risk

[Marco Skoll]

Originally posted by Shadow:

it was Quick Time, i just re-instaled it and it's working back again

No, the correct solution is to UNinstall it, not REinstall it.

Quicktime is known to have serious security flaws (which will never be fixed, because it's no longer supported). The US government's cyber security division has an active alert out telling users to uninstall it. (I'm not joking).

[Capt Fuzzy]

Originally posted by Marco Skoll:

Quicktime is known to have serious security flaws (which will never be fixed, because it's no longer supported). The US government's cyber security division has an active alert out telling users to uninstall it. (I'm not joking).

Yup, see here if you think it's a joke:
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA16-105A

[Shadow]

Without It I cant actually export to .MOV, and idk why i cant edit .AVI

[surfer171]

Originally posted by Shadow:

Without It I cant actually export to .MOV, and idk why i cant edit .AVI

Then just export as image sequence and get used to .mp4

[Marco Skoll]

Originally posted by Shadow:

Without It I cant actually export to .MOV, and idk why i cant edit .AVI

Zappy explained the exact process you need to export reliably to any format. You export as an image sequence, which you can then convert to any format you wish (as almost all video editors can load image sequences).

Although it takes a couple of minutes to convert, the initial render is slightly faster and much more reliable. (There's no getting to the end of a several hour long render and finding out that SFM has completely ballsed it up, unlike can happen with MOV/MP4 and which is basically guaranteed with AVI).