Video turned into tmp format

[Burnside]

Ok, I spent about seven hours rendering a video into MP4 format. I watched the video in Windows Media Player and it worked fine and then it somehow turned into TMP format. How could this happen?!

[Mystix]

TMP, maybe means a Temporary type of file I believe.

Anyways, look for where your movie file was saved. If you rename the .tmp over to .mp4 or a .avi, can you then play it as a movie file? If not, rename it back with the .tmp extension and maybe the actual movie file is stored at another location / folder in your hard drive?

Strange that Windows Media Player would change the format, unless you somehow did a convert or save as option with it? I rarely use Window Media Player, so I'm not really familiar with it so much. Did it somehow open up into Windows Movie Maker instead and was converted, as I think TMP files are also a temp file created when editing or working with Windows Movie Maker.

If so, then try loading the TMP file into Windows Movie Maker, then export it, or Save as, a video file (you might have options from a drop-down menu to choose the format, such as .wmv, .mpeg or .mov).

Good luck.

[Burnside]

Originally posted by LoneWolfDon:

Anyways, look for where your movie file was saved. If you rename the .tmp over to .mp4 or a .avi, can you then play it as a movie file?

HOLY COW, IT WORKED! THANKS A MILLION!

[Artyom Havok]

this is so weird! i was using this just fine and it rendered out into the .mp4 just fine then i did a system restore on my video machine and now since re-installing the program it is now rendering out everything into video.mp4.tmp leaving me to delete the .tmp part... and its all fine. i just dont understand why its doing this now at random?

[Artyom Havok]

...and then just like that on the 3rd render of the day it did not add .tmp to the file :/ so... idk

[UhohhotdogYT]

I just had the same issue and it helped me. Thanks