@TheAnonymousGhoul Thank you for the additional information.
There was another user (with a Mac) who had a problem with a frame range starting at a non-zero number:
Failed animation rendering, needs help!
The new error message you posted refers to f%04d.png, instead of frame%04d.png.
Is that because you used ‘f’ as the base name?
@Guerreiro64 Do you have any problem if you render starting at a non-zero frame number?