Hello everyone! It’s been a while since i have this problem. I see other people asked similar questions about it but most of them i found are like from 2020-2022 which i am not sure is going to help me now so i hope it’s not a problem to ask again. I am using Krita since last summer so i am not sure which version is now, but i did have this problem before, it’s from the previous month on so. The thing is when i asked for help they told me my working file shouldn’t be named in other language except english, nothing else so i currently don’t know what to do. My project end date is this week and i have no idea how to export it or anything. Will be so happy if someone can try help me!
Hello @Harmaini_Mila06, and welcome to the forum!
And, did you try to use a full English path and filename for your animation, for instance saving it directly to your desktop as “animation.mp4”? The thing is, it is true that FFmpeg, the software Krita uses to render your animations or time-lapse recordings, has issues with non-English characters and can refuse to work when you use them. And just recently we have a lot of users like you reporting exactly this issue.
Please tell us from where you have your copy of Krita.
Please tell us the version number of Krita that you use, you can find it via the menu Help > Bug Report in the opening dialog behind Version:.
It is a good idea to update to the most recent version if you should not use it already. You can download it from the following link and can install it directly over your current installation, all your settings will be preserved: Download | Krita
Which version of Windows exactly do you use.
Please give us links to the topics from 2020-2022 you found, that are similar to your problem, so we can get an idea about your issue.
Please post a screenshot from your animation rendering settings, so from this dialog:
Additionally, we need screenshots from the error dialogs you get. IMPORTANT: Please, before rendering your animation to provoke the error message showing up, set up your Krita to use English language, so we have a chance to interpret the message of your error dialogs.
The maximum size of uploads to the forum is 3 MB, for pictures exists the additional constraint that they are not accepted if they are above 9 mega-pixels, so a maximum size of 3k by 3k, but it is better to stay a little below that, since sometimes the forum software is picky, but pictures in 2,900 by 2,900 pixels were all accepted so far.
Please answer these questions as good as you can, and be prepared that there probably will be more questions, but without knowing what is happening on your side we can’t help. Your posting for instance did not really provide any useful information beside the fact that you have an issue. You whether gave us the sources where you already looked for answers, nor did you tell us where you asked or whom you asked for support.
If you want to meet your “project end date”, you have to give us the information in a way that someone who does not know or see what you know or see about your issue is able to understand, we don’t sit beside you.
Michelist
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Hello! I am so sorry for the question and not being informatively enough, i will do my best to fix that:
- i downloaded Krita from the official site!
-My version is 5.2.9
-i use Windows 10
-the links i could find are these:
https://www.reddit.com/r/krita/comments/mk4bux/why_can_i_not_render_the_animation/
here is the screenshot for the rendering settings
that’s the error it gives me after i click OK
i am trying to export the animation on 24 frames but i am ok with 12 as well! I have 60 frames animation, so i guess the problem is not with the file size or something of this matter.
Your issue is the size in pixels, some call it insane. If you don’t are required to deliver your animation in that size, which is above the standard size required by the DCI Digital Cinema Initiatives
so above the size they need for huge cinema canvases to show movies, you should reduce it to at lest full HD which is 1920 by 1080 pixels, but even smaller is good for most use cases.
If you need that size, then you must use FFmpeg from here:
You need this download from them but can use this direct download-link:
https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-release-full.7z
Michelist
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To give some practical context, a ‘4k’ monitor has a physical screen resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels.
So your animation with a size of 3508 x 2480 could not be displayed at it’s full resolution on even a 4K monitor.
You need to consider who is going to watch this animation, using what type of monitor.
As for the ffmpg failure, I suggest that you make a copy of your .kra file and open it, then do Image → Scale Image To New Size then take it down to 25% to see if that can then be rendered out to video with no errors.
NOTE: You can’t do that kind of simple/easy scaling if you’re using an animated transform mask. So don’t try it if you are using an animated transform mask.
Instead, render out to an image sequence then create a new document of 3508 x 2480 and import the sequence in with File → Import animation frames.
Then scale down to 25% and then render out to video.
Looking at your screenshot, you’re using ffmpeg at -/Desktop/Krita (x64)/bin/ffmpeg.exe
Do you actually have krita installed on your Desktop instead of in C:/Program Files ?
Edit Add: @Michelist The download link you gave is the 8.0.1 ‘Full’ release. Isn’t it more usual to recommend the ‘Essentials’ release?
I don’t do much if anything with Windows nowadays so I’m not familiar with Gyan builds and the difference between Full and Essential.
Thank you for this observation! And: Argh, how I managed to overlook that!?
But okay, although it is an extremely strange location to install programs too, in theory this should not affect Krita working correctly.
Michelist
The ‘Essentials’ release would be the go-to release for standard use cases and relying on only Krita compatible codecs in terms of licenses, so Krita’s standard way to render up to a certain resolution. If I’m not mistaken, the ‘Essentials’ release was always the recommended version because of license compatibility.
I posted that link deliberately because @Harmaini_Mila06 claimed that it is a work that has to be ready end of the week, which probably means that this animation is created for someone else than @Harmaini_Mila06, whose requirements I don’t know.
And if that size is mandatory, @Harmaini_Mila06 will need the full build, which also holds codecs for those sizes (but aren’t Krita compatible).
But in principle, I announced why I pointed to the full release:
But if the recipient/customer/whomever, who will probably get it then may have ordered that resolution (although it being a standard canvas size with A4 landscape), you need those codecs that go above what Krita can ship because of being license-wise incompatible.
(Please excuse this rough text, but I am currently busy with my evening routine in the nursing home and don’t have much time to revise my text before posting, as I am being prepared for the night.)
Michelist
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Thank you for your comprehensive explanation. I’d forgot about licensing issues.
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to be honest i am not sure why it’s there but i didn’t look at it before so..it’s like this
Else, thank you for all information! I will definetly try to fix this thing with these tips! Thank you so much!
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