A colleague of mine who has been using IRender for images for a while needs to produce an animation but neither him nor I could get it to work today.
He is running Windows-7 64-bit
Sketchup version 8.
IRender version KA28nxtc
He keeps getting a codec error on his machine:
"Cannot save animation frame: Unable to Create Compressed Stream: Check your CODEC options."
How do I check codec options? I noticed there is no way in the dialogs to select a codec and I am sure that in the past there was.
I checked the installed codecs using Windows media Player Help. It appears both Cinepak Radius and MSVC are installed.
Do you have any thoughts on this? He does have Windows-7 32-bit on another partition on his machine. Should we install on that and try it? Hopefully his license will work for that.
Thanks
Derek Jenkins
derekmjenkins@gmail.com
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In the latest version, there is a button to select the codec to use on the Animation dialog.
if you can run the new version, please have him try a couple of different codecs listed there and see if he has any luck. You could try installing the new version on that other machine and see if it works for you.
Otherwise, I would set the output of the animation to be .png files, instead of an avi file. Then you can take the folder of images that it produces to a program that assembles the animation from a series of image files, like Gimp or PhotoShop.
There is no setting that appears for him. See attached images.
Can I run the new version with the existing license? I don't want to install the new version only to find out I need to purchase a new license for something that should be working with our current license and version.
irendernxt animation window4.PNG
irendernxt animation window2.PNG
irendernxt animation window3.PNG