rantingrich opened this issue on Dec 19, 2015 ยท 3 posts
rantingrich posted Sat, 19 December 2015 at 11:50 AM
I just cant help but to share this news. I have had nothing but issues rendering out of carrara on mac os 10 as a quicktime file. After about 30-45 frame it would always crash or freeze. DAZ and their ringers just told me to SIT DOWN, SHUT UP! and live with it or get ANOTHER program to stitch together Image Sequenced output! REALLY! REEEAAALLLY!
Now I understand Quicktime is 32 bit! I get that! BUT still it would crash even when I ran under 32 bit
So another frustrated Carrara mac user on DAZ told me he thought it had something to do with the SLEEP Cycle on mac os 10 even though all settings were set to never.
he told me his issues were fixed wit ha free APP from APPLE called CAFFEINE
I got and used CAFFEINE today and did a full res 30 FPS Quicktime 120 frame render without a hiccup.
I don't understand it but i love it!
If you had given up on outputting as a quicktime file and had to go make about another thirty steps to get your renders out GO GET CAFFEINE! at APPLE
MarkBremmer posted Sat, 19 December 2015 at 12:43 PM
Thanks for the tip!
Carrara has never played well with Quicktime on Mac. Glad to hear there is a solution. Plus in my experience, when when rendering to QT, each consecutive frame takes longer while it recompresses. I don't know if Caffeine fixes that too.
I've always rendered to sequenced images to avoid issues and allow for other post processes in 3rd party software.
None of the other animation software I use ever lets the OS sleep while rendering, only Carrara. Neat-o. Always had to go to preferences and disable sleep during rendering. But everything seems to have certain pathologies.
Snagger posted Tue, 29 December 2015 at 6:48 AM
Thanks for the tip.
Like Mark Bremmer, I have fallen fowl to outputting to quicktime in the past and now always output as sequenced images, then use a free image stacker (Time Laspe Assember) to create the quicktime file. Works a treat.
The main problem I constatly run into is after saving a 2gb+ CAR scene on my iMac, and then reopening, Carrara nearly always reports a 'Not my file type while executing open' error. It drives me mad and I have lost so much work !!