3DS Max 2017 only renders few seconds

[Anonymous]

Since yesterday 3DS Max 2017, won’t render more than few seconds (4 or 5 seconds) to a MOV or AVI file, this happens using Scanline Render, Mental Ray or any other Render. Max will go true the 8 hours to render and the results are files with few seconds. I render a Targa Sequence 1800 frames long and only the Alpha Channel rendered. This past week I didn’t have any problems and I have not change anything.

Any help will be greatly appreciated, I have a project for school and I don’t know what to do.

Dario

[Francisco_Penaloza]

You should try to avoid to render a video format from Max,

save as JPN, PNG, TGA as image sequence and then create a video file, with the Comparing rendering buffer or any video editing software.

On your specific case, you may be running out of memory,  or disk space, or windows is killing the process, actually anything can stop the render straight to video process.

Use image sequence.

When you used the targa file format, maybe you didn't select to save the RGB or the software that load your file didn't read correctly.

JPG can go a long run, if you need alpha, PNG would work great too.