It is my first time using blender for animation purposes, but I have a problem because I'm not able to render it, and save it as .avi file. When I click the Render animation button, this error shows up "Cannot open or start AVI movie file". Does anyone have a solution for it? Not sure if that's important but I'm using Windows computer. I can also send you the file, to check what is the problem. Thanks in advance :)
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$\begingroup$ please provide blend file. Before uploading, use file->pack resources. thx. $\endgroup$– ChrisCommented Mar 15 at 12:44
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$\begingroup$ here it is :) univerzamb-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/… $\endgroup$– AnaCommented Mar 15 at 20:26
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1$\begingroup$ best practice is to render to an image sequence and then do the conversion separately $\endgroup$– Allen SimpsonCommented Mar 16 at 7:46
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$\begingroup$ Agree with the above, unless it's a fast preview or a video editing, you probably should avoid video output; it's costs more power and isn't fail-proof. Otherwise, it could be an access issue as in the answer below, but also an incorrect set of output settings. Please share with us your file output and encoding settings. I would be careful using AVI in the first place, it was never the most useful format back in its time and there are probably way better options now, like a simple MP4 container with a h264 video track like one of the presets you can use. $\endgroup$– Lauloque ♦Commented Mar 16 at 17:09
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Make sure that your output file path does exist in your output properties. I had the same mistake, changed it to an existing one and it worked.
Hope it helps.
