Quality set to 80%
Resolution: Half size
3531 frames 1240 x 1754
I verified the FFmpeg location (this is the FFmpeg included in Krita)
Tried to export to a different folder.
Resized the export several times to see if that helped.
Do you think it’s just too much for my laptop and its 6 GB of RAM? (I made sure nothing else was running - no browser - not even file explorer)
Have you rendered timelapse videos of that size and number of frames before with no problems?
After a full close down and power on restart, how much RAM is being used?
Then, running krita, opening your document and preparing to run the timelapse export, how much RAM is being used just before you press the Export button?
Does the fail error message happen immediately or after some time?
If you keep the Task Manager visible while rendering is in progress (if you can do that and if there is enough time), can you see total RAM use going up too much?
If you have 6 GB of RAM then that will probably be a 4 GB RAM stick and a 2 GB stick. You should be able to replace the 2 GB stick with a 4 GB stick to give you a total of 8 GB of RAM. (I’m assuming a laptop here. A desktop may be different.)
I have rendered long videos on Krita before but it was at least a year ago, before FFmpeg was built in. I’m sure they had even more frames than this one.
With nothing else running - 33% memory used (so about 2 GB)
Krita fresh start - memory goes up to 85%
The error message is instant.
I’ve never opened my laptop (truthfully, it’s 11 years old and I’m just waiting for it to die so I can get something better).
That leaves about 900 MB or maybe less for ffmpeg to run in and do its job while juggling the canvas capture files and the rendered video. That may not be enough.
See how it does with the gyan ffmpeg. You can use one you may already have or download the latest one.
I upgraded my old laptop from 4 GB to 6 GB about 6 years ago.
A few weeks ago, I upgraded it to 8GB of RAM and put Linux Mint on it.
Keep your old one running with Linux Mint on it and get a new one for Windows
When using the built-in FFmpeg, try switching the profile to “MP4 openh264”, if I remember correctly it doesn’t support the x264 one. (It would be nice if this was made clear to users somehow, instead of being the default and throwing an empty error (there might be an error message in the mp4.log file, “Unknown encoder ‘libx264’”)…)
