Hello, I've been having trouble with this animation I've been working on. It simply won't play, it just gets stuck on a frame. Using the arrows keys and clinging manually works, however. It also exports to gif fine.

I've done many things like tracing on the images on a new layer and making a new file and copying the layer but it doesn't work. Strangely if I make a completely new drawing those seem to work.

I'm willing to send the file in question if I can get this problem sorted. I'd file a bug report but I don't even know where it's going wrong. I'd really appreciate any help, thank you.

Please share the .kra file so we can take a look, and it might also be a good idea to make a screen recording (of the entire Krita desktop) showing an attempt to play the video.

Here's a link to the video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15WAF6f ... sp=sharing

Where can I send you the file? Thank you again for the help!

You could upload it to your Google Drive and post the link here, as one possibility.

does this work? https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jcAYK ... Mf3jpvjndP

Yes, I downloaded the Sep13.kra file.

I can confirm that the animation does not play when I press the play button but I can manually go through each frame and see that they are all different.

Also, it renders out well to an animated GIF with no errors.

The strange thing is this: If you Play it, you get a still image on the screen that seems to correspond to a particular frame but this exact content does not exist on any manually selected frame, there are subtle differences. Also, the particular 'frozen' frame displayed varies depending on what you did before when trying different sequences of manual action prior to using the Play button.

If I find anything that helps to understand what may be going wrong, I'll certaintly get back here and make a fresh reply.

ahabgreybeard wrote:If I find anything that helps to understand what may be going wrong, I'll certaintly get back here and make a fresh reply.

it might be a preserved frame of some previous undo state maybe? Sorry about the delayed reply I don't have much time outside school to work on art projects. Regardless I appreciate the time you took the verify the problem for me. I hope a solution can be found soon, it was a bit clunky to try to edit the animation if i couldn't see the changes in motion.

I noticed this as well and submitted a bug report.

Try going into Settings->Configure Krita->Performance->Animation Cache.

Is the cache storage backend set to "On-disk" by any chance? If it is, try setting it to "In-memory" instead. Or, if it's already on In-memory, try setting it to on-disk instead; this worked for me, and I'm interested in hearing your results as it might pertain to my bug report.

KiwiBlaster516 wrote:I noticed this as well and submitted a bug report.

Try going into Settings->Configure Krita->Performance->Animation Cache.

Is the cache storage backend set to "On-disk" by any chance? If it is, try setting it to "In-memory" instead. Or, if it's already on In-memory, try setting it to on-disk instead; this worked for me, and I'm interested in hearing your results as it might pertain to my bug report.

Oh my gosh. that totally worked!!! Thank you!!!!

Hello,

I have been having this exact same problem with my animation. GIF works fine, no other format does.

I looked through the previous posts and followed the directions to the "Configure Krita" page, but for some reason "In-memory" and "On-disk" are both grayed out for me and I cannot change them. Right now, mine is stuck on "In-memory". Is there any way to change this in the current version? I tried it with a new Krita tab and everything; nothing about my current settings seem to be affecting it.

Can you post a download link to the .kra file? I've no idea why the options would be greyed out though.
Which OS and which version of krita are you using?

Sure! I use Krita 4.1.7 on Windows 10. Here's the drive link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17UzoLs ... sp=sharing

On Windows 10, using krita 4.1.7 and also the latest 4.2.4 version, I can play and render out your animation to .mp4 with no problems.
You ought to use the 4.2.4 version since it's had many bug fixes since the 4.1.7 version.

Also, with 4.1.7, the cache is set to in-memory and the choices are greyed out. With 4.2.4, they are not greyed out. I've no idea why.

Have you downloaded and used ffmpeg in accordance with the instructions given in the manual?: https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_man ... or-windows

Did you check that the frame rate and image size and start/end frames matched your animation?

That's all I can think of.

I downloaded the newest version and used the old ffmpeg file, and the render worked! Thanks for the help - I hadn't realized Krita had a new version out!