Has anyone else found that, when rendering animations in UF, that part of the way through the process, the job just fails? I get a log that says something about something used by another process then just reports job finished without there being any AVI file. (I would have included the actual log content, but I deleted it).
The Rev
I don't use Ultrafractal, but as a rule - Never render an avi file from a fractal generator!
Only render image sequences and compile them in a video editor.
The memory overhead for movies is insane, and you will get failures trying to render an avi directly, unless the video is extremely short with no deep zooming.
This general rule holds true for 3D Animations in programs like Carrara and Blender too.
Image sequences are the way to go, and the way the Pros make movies. One reason I absolutely Hate UF is that when told to render an image sequence, you don't get images until the whole job is done. The images should render one at a time, then clear the memory used to make them before starting the next image. But even in UF a render of an image sequence will pick up where it left off after a crash - however a movie file will not. So right there you should have all the reason you need to avoid rendering movies directly.
There are many choices for compiling image sequences. If you need some pointers to video editors, just ask!
The short list is : VirtualDub. It's free and powerful!
December 05, 2006, 07:56:21 PM
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