Movie export always crashes

Hello there,

I’ve been experiencing constant crashes when trying to export a movie for months now. I’ve tried it on several different projects and the export crashes all the time even with the latest 4.16. The problem seem to be more persistent when exporting to a picture format as opposed to a video format.
Based on my observations, the perpetrator of this heinous act may or may not be a camera actor with keyframed focal length/aperture values.

I’m having this too, and your observation makes sense. Has this been fixed? I’m installing 4.18 as of now.

I gave up on doing cinematics for the past few months due to those constant crashes along with the terrible interface, functionality and user experience the Sequencer provides. However, I have to work with it again and was just about to do so in 4.18.3 for the first time, so I don’t know if this is fixed yet.

I upgraded to 4.18 and it fixed it for me. It also fixed an annoying bug where exporting a video with camera cuts wasn’t working. It would do the first camera cut fine, but when it would go to the 2nd it would render a default camera view.

Sequencer does take some getting used to, I think since it’s new we are getting the most bugs but so far 4.18 seems like an improvement for sure. Lighting looks much different too, seems to look like better GI, but not sure what it is exactly.

Glad that it fixed it for you. It didn’t fix it for me though, I had another crash today when trying to animate the camera aperture… at some point I thought that there might have been something wrong with my PC, but I’ve changed almost every part since last year and the engine just kept on crashing. This is absolutely incredible.