well... here I am again... my first anim with the bouncing sailboat went fine. this time I merely put a tree on a plain, set the wind to blow, and moved the camera through it. 0-14 frames, 3 seconds long. set to 'final' render. I have 30 gigs free on my hard drive, but I get an error, writing to something to the order of error writing to c; vue; anim; tree, please check avail disc space and try again.... I went in and flushed the history... NOW... what have I done wrong!??? thanks again for your patience. furrtig

Save to another HD if you have one, if not, save to another folder:-) Nothing wrong probably. Could be a memory problem. maybe restart computer before rendering tha anim:-)

Well how much free space do you have? I had a similar error once and could not figure it out so I checked it with file explorer. Yup the disk was full. The swap file consumed the entire drive on a huge render I was doing. Now not saying that's your problem but after you create your animation. Save it quit Vue reboot, turn off crud and load Vue and render away. Now you'll tell me your on a Mac. I personally can't help you then. Remember lots of files don't show on a winders box that are there depending on how you got your box set up. Beware of that wierdness. Like the trash can takes up 10% of the drive even if it's completely empty unless you change it settings.

Although it looks like this wasn't the problem here, might be worth pointing out that you also get that error if you overtype the default filename and don't include the extension.

Something else I discovered recently about saving animations; most of the 'codecs' that come with windows are not full compressor/decompressors, but just decompressors (players). Vue really should warn you when select one of them for output, but it doesn't.

John

John has a point; I think Vue defaults to this error message when it can't think of anything better. I get this error if I choose some of the more obscure codecs in my system. Which codec are you using??

the default. but I shut this and that down, rebooted and it saved. lots of trial and error!

Hmm....I'm not a Mac user, but do you have any other programs that can create animation files, such as Premiere? And if so, do they work fine or...?

Remember this problem has been solved by him rebooting but he posted that on a different thread. Just to clear up the possible confusion.

Uhh...okay, thanks.