Cannot create an animation

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
April 25, 2017
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I followed the instructions in the User’s Manual to create an animation of a spiral. When I clicked on ‘Animate’ in the ‘Record Animation Dialog Box’, nothing happened. Subsequent attempts brought up the message ‘Error initialising video stream’.

Where am I going wrong?

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Werner_E

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> Where am I going wrong?

hard to say without seeing what you do.

Chances are that you forgot to select (fence) the area you want to see in the video. You have to do this AFTER you selected Animation from the menu and before you click "Animate".

At least I often forget to do so and face the very same error message.

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idarney

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I selected Record Animation, then the area, then Animate. The result is below

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Werner_E

25-Diamond I

So it looks you are doing it the right way.

Have you changed ("options") the default codec (default: Microsoft Video 1) to something else ? Most codecs offered are for decoding and will throw the same error you encounter if chosen for encoding.