Hi

I just started having this problem.

When I try and create an animation it writes all the frames and then a message comes up that says "Cannot find (here insert what ever I named the file and it's location) and then it closes.

It's like when it get done making the animation it doesn't know how to make the file.

I don't know how it can be looking for a file it hasn't written yet.

Anyone have any ideas before I reinstall.

This is in Poser 9.

I tried saving the file to different locations, that didn't help.

Mike

Are you sure that there are no illegal characters in the file name?

Sailboat intro 1-100

I tried different names and locations but it still does the same thing, I get a message that says it can't find the file that it is supposed to be creating.

try writing it as a series of frames, make sure the rendering is not failing.

Enough room on the disk?

Hi 

Over 500 gigs of free disk space and I can write it as frames.

I created an avi file from the frames and that worked fine.

I just did a system restore to make sure my computer setting are the same as when it was working.

I have been doing this all the time with no problems until yesterday.

Anyone have any ideas... is there some cache or something that I can clear.

This is really weird it just seems to lose it when it has to write the file and seems to be looking for an existing file instead of writing a new one.

I'm going to go and give it another try since the system restore and see if that helped.

I reinstalled in the same location and kept my preferences and it still does it.

Next step will be to reinstall in a new location as a clean install.

I can output as frames if I have to but this is all lip sync and I like to keep the sound and video together.

Mike

Hi

Here is a picture of the error popup that I get...

I've tried just saving to the desktop and the same thing happens.

Mike

Ok: I tried to give it something to find.

I pasted an existing .avi file into the folder.

Then I ran Poser and told it to replace the existing file with the new one.

I got the same message and the file I had placed in the folder had disappeared.

So it removed it and didn't replace it.

Next step is to completely remove Poser and all registry entries and see what happens when I reinstall it.

Well I reinstalled everything and it still did it after completely removing Poser.

So I did a short video with Andy and it worked.

I tried my file again and it didn't.

I loaded in an old animation that I had done earlier and it worked.

My new file still doesn't so there is something wrong with the file, and the back up file.

I always save things twice and neither one of them work.

So I opened an earlier version made before the speech file was added and that works.

So I guess it's solved, the file is corrupted in some strange way that will let it output frames but not an AVI file.

I have no clue but I'll continue from the older file.

Mike

You could try to open the file with a text editor, search for the avi entry and remove it from the file. If it's a pz3 you will have to uncompress it first. 

Hi

I went back to the older file and redid it from that point, about 6 hours work.

I have output the AVI file and it all looks good.

The file was 2750 frames, when I tried to output the whole thing in one piece Poser crashed after writing all the files, but when I did it divided into 3 parts it completed.

This is nothing new, all my older version crashed if I tried to do more then about 1,000 frames at a time too. Both on my present computer and the one I had before.

I've always had to output the files in segments.

But at least things are back to normal.

I never thought of opening the file in a text editer I'll try that some time.

Thanks for the help.

Mike

Thumbs up for getting it done!

Document your findings as complete as possible and file a ticket to SM please.

Did you monitor RAM usage during the long render to avi?
Can be you just ran out of RAM during the long run?

I have 8 Gigabytes of ram and I've never seen it come close to using that much.

I do think that it is running out of some kind of resource connected to Poser since as I said before I've always had this happen, on several versions of Poser and several different computers.

Probably if I was outputting the files at a smaller size it would work but I'm making the final videos as 1080i HD so that's not an option.

Anyway things are back to the way they always were, and outputting the clips in sections isn't a problem, they all fit together perfectly when I put them back together in Premiere, voice sync and all.

I have the first two videos done and am starting on the third today.

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