I'm using a pentium 4, 2.8ghz w/1gig of ram and a 256mb graphics card for my animation. My question is this I'm trying to render out some pieces of animation. Different sets of time blocks (8 sec.- 1.5 min etc). When it gets to a certain place in the rendering at about 80% it stops and says an unknown error has occured and crashes the rendering process even at low settings. What could be causing this? I really need help because I'm working on these pieces for a Planetarium show and I need to get them done. If anybody could help it would be much appreciated!!! We're trying to use this program as our primary animation package for the planetarium but would like to settle these problems first.

I sometimes get this error but I'm afraid I don't know why. :-( Something you could try though is rendering using the batch process and - if you have a video editor that handle them - render out as a sequence of images rather than an avi or quicktime movie. Then if the error occurs you should have some material to work with.

The advice of falconperigot is good, in addition you can try one of these: -save the file with a different name, close carrara and open the new file -create a new camera and delete the older -trash the preferences of carrara (i'm on a mac, don't know on pc) Hope this help, -TOXE

I get the message all the time and when I don't C just crashes without warning(I guess I try to make everything a bit too accurate). Therefore I've ended up in rendering all my animations in sequenced stills. If the computer crashes I can continue from where I was left. Sometimes though it can be a bit complicated to count where to continue from. I like that I don't have to render everything again. -HK