Freezing Quicktime Render

arem wrote on 5/8/2006, 7:58 AM
Nearly everytime I try to render to a .mov file, it gets stuck at like 79%. About every 10 minutes or so, it increases by 1%. I thought I'd let this go and see if it would actually finish. Well, the video file (5 mintues) grew to 30gb and I had to stop it because I was out of disk space. Any idea why I am having issues rendering to Quicktime? (This is the default setting...seems like when I pick a different one, it works, but the quality is too low.)

Thanks!
-Dan

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ForumAdmin wrote on 5/8/2006, 9:07 PM
The Default Template renders as uncompressed so yes, you are going to end up with huge files.

Try choosing one of the other built-in templates (higher bitrates should give better quality results), or experiment making your own. To create a template, click Custom in Render As, adjust the settings, then type in a new template name and click Save (icon looks like a floppy disk).

<edit> fixed typo
arem wrote on 5/9/2006, 5:59 PM
But is it normal for it to essentially stop at 80%? Literally, I let it sit for 2 hours and it went to like 83%...
Chienworks wrote on 5/9/2006, 7:39 PM
Do you have some effect or filter on your timeline at the 80% point?
arem wrote on 5/10/2006, 4:49 PM
Actually what happens, it has finished the movie at 80% and just sits on a black screen for forever.

-Dan
GlennChan wrote on 5/10/2006, 5:20 PM
When your hard drive is more then 95% full, you might run into fragmentation issues. It gets worse and worse as the drive fills up.
arem wrote on 5/11/2006, 8:09 PM
No, my drive is about 50% full. It could be fragmented though, as I haven't done defrag in a while. I'll try that...someday...

-Dan
johnmeyer wrote on 5/11/2006, 10:01 PM
Don't hurry on the defrag. It makes no difference that anyone (at least no one, other than defrag vendors who choose pathological cases) has ever been able to document.

If the codec is screwing up and creating gigantic files and causing your hard disk to totally fill up, then obviously it will hang or give you an error message. Sounds like the solution lies in figuring out what setting is screwed up and changing that. Even uncompressed isn't going to take more than 5-10 GBytes for just five minutes of video.
arem wrote on 5/12/2006, 7:28 PM
I have a hunch that it is the codec. There is no way a 5 minute movie, even with a bunch of effects, should be more than 20 gb. This thing was just skyrocketing, my poor drive.

-Dan
Chienworks wrote on 5/12/2006, 8:00 PM
Ummm, which codec? DV uses about 225MB/minute so a 5 minute video would be about 1.1GB. Uncompressed without alpha would be about 8.5GB and with alpha would be about 11.3GB.
arem wrote on 5/13/2006, 5:39 AM
Whatever the default codec is for quicktime...

-Dan