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Hey,

I have created a short animation for a client and its not rendering at all. There is no render failed message, no crash, simply nothing happens when I click render...I am able to still navigate and click through parts of the render page UI, so the application is not frozen. The project is a social media advert, I am trying to render it in 1080 x 1080 in .MP4 with the H.264 codec and I've tried leaving it overnight for several hours, but nothing ended up happening.

The animation is made with the combination of the edit and fusion page, its basically a number of stock clips overlayed to create a park scene. I've tried deleting the majority of the overlays in a duplicate timeline to see if it would render with less media, but I got the same result.

Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can try rendering the clip OR how i can structure the animation in a different way? I've never encountered this issue so any ideas will be appreciated.

I am running Davinci Resolve Studio 17.2.1
Intel i7 4790k
32gb ddr3 RAM
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080

Thanks,

- M

chooch63 wrote:I am able to still navigate and click through parts of the render page UI, so the application is not frozen.

If you can click on something* after clicking Render on the right side, then Resolve did not start the render.
When Resolve is rendering, no part of the UI is clickable (other than the Stop button)

*= any of the other tabs, any of the Video Audio File tabs, other render jobs etc

If you feel comfortable (and your NDA allows it), make a phone video of your process so we can debug what's going wrong.

Hey Mads,

Thanks for the reply...I was actually able to find a work-around. I'm still not sure exactly what the issue was, but I was able to render the footage in .AVI with the GoPro CineForm codec. That file type does not really run on most video viewers so its not very useful, but I could then make a new timeline, import the .AVI rendered file and then render that timeline in my desired file type. It worked quite well and didn't seem to lose any fidelity. I'm writing this in case anybody else has a similar issue.