I made 149 scenes and I pressed on export > Video > Avi 720HD
I waited for 4 hours for it to create the video and after the render was over there was no video
I did again and waited for 4 hours again and still there was no video,
I searched my entire pc and couldn’t find it,
What do you think I should do?
Currently i am waiting for the third animation rendering
On the bright side I made a different animation 1 week before that and it worked perfectly, but Im still not sure why doesn’t this one create the video file
Any advice/help will really be appreciated,
Thanks you very much
Yes, thankfully the model was saved in a sketchup file with all the scenes
May i ask what do you mean by setting the first scene page to active?
I only need it to render as an uncompressed Avi video file but that doesnt work for me
however an codec 264 mp4 did download so im thinking of converting it to an avi file however i will still lose some quality. the video editing program only accepts avi files
thank you very much
Well normally, one of the scene pages would serve as the starting page for the animation, when running the animation via menu: View > Animation > Play
But perhaps export doesn’t care what page is the current active display page ?
(It was just a passing thought.)
OK, that was just for test.
As a guess, I might think that your system RAM is low. But your forum profile doesn’t mention what your RAM is.
(By the way, I don’t know of any graphics card that can have 500GB of GRAM. Perhaps you mean 500MB ?)
Can your video editing program stitch together still image frames ?
If, so, and you have a SketchUp Pro edition, you can export the image sets as PNG or TIF.
I too am having the same issue. 13 scenes, 41mb file, 1158 components.
Machine - GTX1060 6gb card, Core i7 CPU9700 with 35gb RAM.
Avi file simply does not get generated after the export process is complete. Attempting to export 3840x2160 avi. I did export an avi at 640x480 but the quality was ■■■■ and the file size of 1.35gb.
Oh, now that is an easy question to answer, … No. (Since you are not the original poster, and in your initial post you said “I too am having the same issue.” There are at least 2 of “sufferers”.)
Seriously, I do remember similar posts over the years in all the SketchUp forums that there have ever been.
You really wanted to ask if this was a known issue.
Since you are dealing with a large file, perhaps it suffers the same fate as this bug …
… so check your “Temp” directory.
You might check to see what color setting the file would use. (Is it writing 32-bit color? etc.)
EDIT, The Actual Workaround: The AVI file will be written to your "%LocalAppData%/Temp" folder as "video.avi" .
Until they fix the copy to destination part of the command, you’ll have to copy and rename it yourself.
An AVI file uses less compression to store files and takes up more space than many other video formats—like MPEG and MOV. AVI files also can be created without the use of compression at all. This makes the files lossless, which results in immensely larger file sizes — approximately 2-3 GB per minute of video. Source
640x480 is going to look awful if you view it larger than that on screen.
Are your scene transitions complex and long? That would have a major impact on you AVI file size and PC performance… does it work with transitions turned off?
Eg 3 sec transitions x 150 scenes @25 frames /sec = 11,250 frames x screen size etc etc. 4 hours is probably to be expected… do a test on smaller first…
He did. At 480p and the file was written where he expected, but the quality was poor.
This issue has to do with large files not being written. There is a cutoff at some size, we need to find out what that size is. (I suspect it’s related to the other bug Thomas logged, see above.)
That would be a slide show not an animation.
I’d instead suggest reducing transition time until you get a file output, then increase the time slowly and narrow down the max size.
The process is still valid, regardless 13 scenes or 150 scenes… no one mentioned transition settings… and it is an animation if the file is an AVI… regardless of the number of frames… just a very jerky one
Thanks for the comments. I think there is a file size limit and I will investigate this. I have 13 scenes, 25fps with a 5sec scene transition time. That’s 1625 frames in all. I also want to shot this in 3840x2160 (16:9); Yes, I know that’s a very high res, but the computer seems to handle it just fine. I just tried to shoot 2 screen with those settings and no file. clearly this is a bug.
Bit rusty of video but I think that is 40+ GB raw bytes, no compression… (3 bytes/pixel) ? I think file size maybe is your problem… hitting hardware limits maybe… page file, harddisk, w32 file sizes etc
Yes I tested and confirmed this is a bug and am reporting it.
But as I said above, they know what causes it and how to fix it.
And where the actual file is written … ie …
@mwds The AVI file will be written to your "%LocalAppData%/Temp" folder as "video.avi".
Until they fix the copy to destination part of the command, you’ll have to copy and rename it yourself.
EDIT (ADD):
I think you’ll find the limit is 2,147,483,647 bytes, which is the maximum number that can be expressed using 32 bits.
So, video files below this limit get successfully copied and renamed to where the user specified in the export dialog. The copy fails with larger files, but the file remains in the “Temp” folder.
SketchUp 2020 has removed lossless avi (as well as webm and ogv) video export for some security and “feature lightening” reasons.
from the release notes, section Miscellaneous:
Combined the Animation format menu items into one dialog.
Removed support for exporting animations in avi, webm, and ogv file formats. The only supported video file format is now mp4. To create lossless animations, export png files and utilize a 3rd party tool to assemble the images into a video.
