Video codecs no longer working for Viewport Capture...
Just a month ago I was able to export viewport captures as QuickTime files. Now, when I click on the 'Codec' button, if either QuickTime or AVI is selected as the format, I get the following error: /'Could not create the file and initialize the render - verify the path'/ I'm not sure what path it's talking about. This happens in both 2012 SAP and 2013... -- Signature *Tim Crowson */Lead CG Artist/ *Magnetic Dreams, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com /Confidentiality Notice: This email, including attachments, is confidential and should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient(s). If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage mechanism. Magnetic Dreams, Inc cannot accept liability for any statements made which are clearly the sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of Magnetic Dreams, Inc or one of its agents./
Re: Video codecs no longer working for Viewport Capture...
I've had problems with this when its trying to output to a network drive. It didn't give me any issues outputting locally. On 5 March 2013 16:20, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Just a month ago I was able to export viewport captures as QuickTime files. Now, when I click on the 'Codec' button, if either QuickTime or AVI is selected as the format, I get the following error: *'Could not create the file and initialize the render - verify the path'* I'm not sure what path it's talking about. This happens in both 2012 SAP and 2013... -- *Tim Crowson **Lead CG Artist* *Magnetic Dreams, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com *Confidentiality Notice: This email, including attachments, is confidential and should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient(s). If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage mechanism. Magnetic Dreams, Inc cannot accept liability for any statements made which are clearly the sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of Magnetic Dreams, Inc or one of its agents.* -- www.matinai.com
Re: Video codecs no longer working for Viewport Capture...
I get the error no matter where I'm outputting the file. Local or Network. -Tim On 3/5/2013 10:25 AM, Matt Morris wrote: I've had problems with this when its trying to output to a network drive. It didn't give me any issues outputting locally. On 5 March 2013 16:20, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Just a month ago I was able to export viewport captures as QuickTime files. Now, when I click on the 'Codec' button, if either QuickTime or AVI is selected as the format, I get the following error: /'Could not create the file and initialize the render - verify the path'/ I'm not sure what path it's talking about. This happens in both 2012 SAP and 2013... -- *Tim Crowson */Lead CG Artist/ *Magnetic Dreams, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 tel:615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 tel:615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com http://www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com /Confidentiality Notice: This email, including attachments, is confidential and should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient(s). If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage mechanism. Magnetic Dreams, Inc cannot accept liability for any statements made which are clearly the sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of Magnetic Dreams, Inc or one of its agents./ -- www.matinai.com http://www.matinai.com -- Signature
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Sounds like a job for Process Monitor. Find out what file that cryptic error is talking about. On December 11, 2009 at 4:23 PM Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com mailto:witha...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not saying this is your issue, but I tend to do this a lot where I start a capture session, notice something is wrong, then cancel it immediately. I fix the issue and then try to recapture, don't notice that my last capture is already open on my system. There is no file overwrite warning or any other notification, my capture session simply terminates when it cannot overwrite the file on the first frame. Not everyone is aware that Quicktime, on windows at least, tends to open a file for writing before it writes the captured movie stream. The moment you press that codec button, you've got an open file. I've seen issues when someone, for example, tries to set the codec first, change the filepath, then do a capture. Sometimes the default filepath in the capture window points to a valid, local, temp location, and then when setting the desired capture path to something else, say, a production path over a network for dailies, the destination doesn't actually exist or is read only. I suspect that the fact Quicktime opens files for writing header info prior to capture makes it difficult to interrupt the process and notify the user that a file is about to get overwritten. Instead, the way we learn that a filepath is invalid for writing due to whatever reason (read only, invalid address, someone else or some other process already has the file open, etc) is that the quicktime capture session simply shuts down after attempting to write the first frame. On 05/03/2013 11:39 AM, Tim Crowson wrote: I get the error no matter where I'm outputting the file. Local or Network. -Tim On 3/5/2013 10:25 AM, Matt Morris wrote: I've had problems with this when its trying to output to a network drive. It didn't give me any issues outputting locally. On 5 March 2013 16:20, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Just a month ago I was able to export viewport captures as QuickTime files. Now, when I click on the 'Codec' button, if either QuickTime or AVI is selected as the format, I get the following error: /'Could not create the file and initialize the render - verify the path'/ I'm not sure what path it's talking about. This happens in both 2012 SAP and 2013... -- *Tim Crowson */Lead CG Artist/ *Magnetic Dreams, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 tel:615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 tel:615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com http://www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com /Confidentiality Notice: This email, including attachments, is confidential and should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient(s). If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage mechanism. Magnetic Dreams, Inc cannot accept liability for any statements made which are clearly the sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of Magnetic Dreams, Inc or one of its agents./ -- www.matinai.com http://www.matinai.com -- Signature
Re: Video codecs no longer working for Viewport Capture...
Well either a restart or renaming the save file to a new name normally solves it for me, but it does pop up way to often... On 5 March 2013 16:39, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: I get the error no matter where I'm outputting the file. Local or Network. -Tim On 3/5/2013 10:25 AM, Matt Morris wrote: I've had problems with this when its trying to output to a network drive. It didn't give me any issues outputting locally. On 5 March 2013 16:20, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Just a month ago I was able to export viewport captures as QuickTime files. Now, when I click on the 'Codec' button, if either QuickTime or AVI is selected as the format, I get the following error: *'Could not create the file and initialize the render - verify the path'* I'm not sure what path it's talking about. This happens in both 2012 SAP and 2013... -- *Tim Crowson **Lead CG Artist* *Magnetic Dreams, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com *Confidentiality Notice: This email, including attachments, is confidential and should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient(s). If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage mechanism. Magnetic Dreams, Inc cannot accept liability for any statements made which are clearly the sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of Magnetic Dreams, Inc or one of its agents.* -- www.matinai.com -- -- www.matinai.com
Re: Video codecs no longer working for Viewport Capture...
Keep in mind that when prepping a Quicktime, Softimage actually writes a small header to the intended capture file before you actually do the capture. Not sure if Windows video codecs do the same, but wouldn't be surprised. If for some odd reason the file path you set is invalid (check to see how your tokens resolve!) or if it goes to a directory that lacks write permissions, this can be an issue. In your case, it's probably not this issue, but just thought I'd put this out there. :-) On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote: Well either a restart or renaming the save file to a new name normally solves it for me, but it does pop up way to often... On 5 March 2013 16:39, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: I get the error no matter where I'm outputting the file. Local or Network. -Tim On 3/5/2013 10:25 AM, Matt Morris wrote: I've had problems with this when its trying to output to a network drive. It didn't give me any issues outputting locally. On 5 March 2013 16:20, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.comwrote: Just a month ago I was able to export viewport captures as QuickTime files. Now, when I click on the 'Codec' button, if either QuickTime or AVI is selected as the format, I get the following error: *'Could not create the file and initialize the render - verify the path' * I'm not sure what path it's talking about. This happens in both 2012 SAP and 2013... -- *Tim Crowson **Lead CG Artist* *Magnetic Dreams, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com *Confidentiality Notice: This email, including attachments, is confidential and should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient(s). If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage mechanism. Magnetic Dreams, Inc cannot accept liability for any statements made which are clearly the sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of Magnetic Dreams, Inc or one of its agents.* -- www.matinai.com -- -- www.matinai.com
Re: Video codecs no longer working for Viewport Capture...
I thought of that as well, and tried different paths where nothing had ever been captured. Same thing. Restarting my box has no effect. Criminy. By the way, Bradley, nice work with your Shotgun/Tank integration. The webinar the other day when Tony presented was frickin' sweet. -Tim On 3/5/2013 11:03 AM, Bradley Gabe wrote: Keep in mind that when prepping a Quicktime, Softimage actually writes a small header to the intended capture file before you actually do the capture. Not sure if Windows video codecs do the same, but wouldn't be surprised. If for some odd reason the file path you set is invalid (check to see how your tokens resolve!) or if it goes to a directory that lacks write permissions, this can be an issue. In your case, it's probably not this issue, but just thought I'd put this out there. :-) On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com mailto:matt...@gmail.com wrote: Well either a restart or renaming the save file to a new name normally solves it for me, but it does pop up way to often... On 5 March 2013 16:39, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: I get the error no matter where I'm outputting the file. Local or Network. -Tim On 3/5/2013 10:25 AM, Matt Morris wrote: I've had problems with this when its trying to output to a network drive. It didn't give me any issues outputting locally. On 5 March 2013 16:20, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Just a month ago I was able to export viewport captures as QuickTime files. Now, when I click on the 'Codec' button, if either QuickTime or AVI is selected as the format, I get the following error: /'Could not create the file and initialize the render - verify the path'/ I'm not sure what path it's talking about. This happens in both 2012 SAP and 2013... -- *Tim Crowson */Lead CG Artist/ *Magnetic Dreams, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 tel:615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 tel:615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com http://www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com /Confidentiality Notice: This email, including attachments, is confidential and should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient(s). If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage mechanism. Magnetic Dreams, Inc cannot accept liability for any statements made which are clearly the sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of Magnetic Dreams, Inc or one of its agents./
