AVI. render problems

[rbrazell]

I'm having trouble when I render an uncompressed .AVI movie in my newly installed LW 10 program. About half the time, after the movie is rendered, my system won't recognise the file as an .AVI (or any other) file. The windows media player can't open it and AE doesn't recognise it either. I've never had this problem before with older versions of Lightwave or Windows. Does anybody have any ideas? I'm stumped and pulling my hair out.

[3DGFXStudios]

Don;t render to AVI's. Render to frame sequences TGA or EXR for example.
If you are talking about a preview try installing some codecs on your system or render smaller previews.

[Silkrooster]

I'm having trouble when I render an uncompressed .AVI movie in my newly installed LW 10 program. About half the time, after the movie is rendered, my system won't recognise the file as an .AVI (or any other) file. The windows media player can't open it and AE doesn't recognise it either. I've never had this problem before with older versions of Lightwave or Windows. Does anybody have any ideas? I'm stumped and pulling my hair out.

As an uncompressed avi you shouldn't have any issues. Well, except for bandwidth. If you CPU is bogged down, you could loose frames and or corrupted files. As 3DGFXStudios points out sequenced images are the best way to go, especially during a power outage in the middle of a render.
Not only will this save you when you need to finish the render, it also means that rendering a couple of corrupted frames is way more faster than render the entire animation again and again and again.
If you do render as an avi, make sure nothing else is running, keep your ram and cpu as free as possible. Other than that go with sequences you will be glad you did.