NotTheRealRuss Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Hey all, First post here, literally my first mp4 render. I'm have it finished and rendered in MPlay. But when I try to export I hit this error. I'm running an Apprentice 17.5 My best guess is that it's angry because the licenses is on the D drive and I'm saving to the C but I don't think where I save it should matter. Any help is appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaidlawFX Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Hello Russ, Welcome to the forum. Historically it has been best to not create videos from inside Houdini but use a third party program that is good with videos. Like Nuke, Aftereffects, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, etc... If you were not on Apprentice I would suggest using TOPs and the image magick plugin. TOPs is not available in apprentice. However you could use image magick as a standalone application. As for a solution to your actual problem it sounds like your system is a bit off if it is complaining about your HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR is off. This is where your personal preferences for Houdini live. However the No License Could be Found to run this program could have been a check to see if you have a paid version of the program. The apprentice version has a bunch of limits. I'm not aware if saving as video is one, but as I said nobody saves videos from Houdini, nor any other 3D based DCC by default. Hope that helps, -Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotTheRealRuss Posted June 20, 2019 Author Share Posted June 20, 2019 Nice to meet you Ben! That's interesting. I love AE and Premiere but what would you suggest I export to open them properly in either? Right now I'm going through all of Peter Quint's tutorials and I'd like to start outputting some rendered files. Thanks a ton Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaidlawFX Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 .exr is the image sequence format of choice for most offline render needs now a days. You may still see some legacy .tif an .tga, but that is more rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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