Re: problem with final render for animations

You would probably have better luck rendering the animation as an image sequence, such as JPEG, and then importing the image sequence into a movie editor and exporting the movie from there. I do it this way using Quicktime Pro to import the image sequence (I'm using a Mac; I don't know what other program you could use with Windows - will Media Player do this?) and save the result as a movie. I've always found rendering a movie from Cinema as a movie format to be problematic, and now I only do that for short test renders. Another advantage of rendering an image sequence is that if, for some reason, your computer, or Cinema, crashes you won't lose all your rendering; you can just start where the rendering left off according to the frame number last rendered before the crash. If you are rendering as a movie format and there's a crash, you lose the entire render.

Jack