hey guys should be a simple questio but how do you watch a rendered mplay movie and export it to quicktime? i tried to export it but get an error? also its the non commercial version..

Maybe your image resolution exceeds the Apprentice limit?

if you want to put your rendered frames to a movie you can do it with ffmpeg.

if you use linux it will be available within mplay. works on centOS with ffmpeg installed. I remember in windows i never really got it to work so i had to do it manually in the comand line. :roll:

thanks doudini, i have windows, sounds complicated how do i find out more about the command line?

mplay should work on Windows.

rossl
thanks doudini, i have windows, sounds complicated how do i find out more about the command line?

its an external tool/program i think it doesnt come with houdini in windows.

you can download the windows build here:
http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ [ffmpeg.zeranoe.com]

after that extract the contents into a folder and run the batch (ff-prompt.bat). might have to run as admin.

it will open a command line where you can use “ffmpeg” command temporary.

the documentation on that you can be found here:
http://www.ffmpeg.org/documentation.html [ffmpeg.org]

and a quick guide for sequences:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FFMPEG_An_Intermediate_Guide/image_sequence [en.wikibooks.org]

its a very powerful utility and can also record your screen, crop audio, convert formats, and a lot more.


not sure though if this is a good option for you. As edward said it probably should work in mplay on windows too. So there might be something wrong with the QuickTime installation. i dont really know. maybe there is an environment variable that has not been set by quicktime.

whats the error message you get?