Short Animation

[ad7venture]

This link has been deleted.  I'll re-encode and try again later.

[Trumgottist]

When you say short, you mean it! Doesn't look too bad.

[Kejero]

I can't get it to play properly (tried media player, classic media player, realplayer, winamp). It plays only half of the movie... The squirl doesn't even show up.(looking at the frames individually the movie file shows more frames than any player will show me...)

Also, the first time I downloaded the zip-file, it was empty...

Am I the only one having this problem?

[Trumgottist]

What "squirl"? I just saw a bird.

[Kejero]

Try pausing the movie while it's playing. Then move the thingy around to (fast) forward or rewind. You should see a squirl somewhere past halfway.

[ad7venture]

Well, they said it worked.  I'll have to try some of the compression options or use a different encoder.  It has a few sound effects, too.  Back to the encoding board I guess.  I wish I had box with windows on it, but I don't.

Let me rephrase that.  I wish I had a Windows box to test the video on.  I hate the standard killing monopoly with a passion.

Thanks for the heads up Kejero.  No one else knew what they were supposed to see, so they said it worked.  I didn't think of it only partially working.

[Trumgottist]

Ah. Opening it in a video editing program that's good with repairing broken movies I was able to see the whole thing. Nice. But I got no sound beyond the part I'd already seen (the first seven seconds) so that's probably why normal media players can't play it. The sound is broken.

[ad7venture]

O.K. Thanks.   I'll start playing around with it.  I might end up having to redo it, but I have the blend file with non-linear animations saved, so it won't be too big a deal.  I was using command line, but I also have a video editor I am going to try.  It's always rough getting things working at first, especially in Linux.  Blender saves the synced sound seperately and you have to use another encoder to combine, which is probably where the probelm came from.  I did it in sections and joined them.  Some sections had sound, some didn't.