Exporting Problem

[Savage_Z32Z]

I exported my movie into an AVI file and when i viewed it, the video was 0.00 seconds long. It was probably a mistake in the process i made so please tell me anything to what you think might have caused it.

[EmperorFaiz.wav]

SFM's own AVI export option is garbage. Use image sequences instead for optimum rendering quality.

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Using AVI option is a bad idea because it produces an uncompressed video file of 4GB in size even the video is a few seconds long. If you render a long video, the file size will exceeds the 4GB of memory which results a horrible color and sound distortion on the second half of the rendered video. In addition to that, SFM would crash most of the time during rendering resulting unfinished and/or corrupted video.

Secondly, using MP4 and MOV option are also a bad idea as the render would create a video with mediocre quality at best like desaturated colors and darker look, and Quicktime app which is required for MP4 render option is no longer updated for Windows and being a security risk to your PC[www.us-cert.gov]. It’s best to remove it once and for all for your PC's sake.

If you really insist, install Quicktime Essentials component only as I'd discovered that it's the Quicktime Player itself that is problematic while the component itself is fine.
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Though, I won’t recommend it either especially if you want to render long video with no video quality compromised whatsoever and low chance of crashing.

The most recommended method is using image sequences option for best video quality, faster render speed and far less chance of corruption and crash, and use a software like Blender, Sony Vegas Pro, Adobe Premiere, OpenShot or VirtualDub to compile them into a video format you want. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=375229570
Image sequence Cheat Sheet for Blender 2.8x

Although rendering and encoding in different stages might sound like more work, image sequences are the standard for experienced artists (for pretty much any rendering program), as saving out frames to individual files to assemble later (rather than trying to encode the entire video at once) is much more stable and cannot completely pooch an entire time-consuming export if the program crashes mid-render.

Note that it is (probably) fine to export as AVI, MP4 or MOV from your video editor of choice, as the problem is with how SFM handles these formats, not the formats themselves.