Short instruction: answer the questions, follow the arrows, if you arrived at the yellow rectangle it's great, try the solution; if it doesn't work or if you have no arrow to follow next, read the red rectangle and follow the instruction inside to get more help.



If you have any questions or suggestions, please comment here. I'm not sure if I addressed all issues. I'll try to update it to include other solutions or other rendering issues if there are any that I missed.

I didn't try to make it very pretty, I didn't have time. If someone wants to make it more fancy, I can provide a .kra file.

Hi Tymond,

That's a well drawn and very useful flowchart so thank you for making it. It will be a good thing to refer people to in future.

I have a question about one point:

"Do you have both dimensions of the canvas (not render size) divisible by two?" The arrow going out says "Yes" and then leads to a box giving instructions to change it to make it divisible. Shouldn't that arrow say "No"?

Great catch! I've uploaded the updated version.

I'm having some issues that couldn't be resolved by this chart.
At first I had problems even rendering the animation without Krita just crashing entirely. (This was fixed after installing ffmpeg on my C drive instead of my D drive)
Now I'm finally able to render the animation, but for some reason the gif/mp4 file (I've tried both) is "corrupted" and stacks the first frame over into the second frame, a small part of the animation is just stuck entirely and doesn't move at all, another part has some weird coloring issues and the logs still say that "everything worked fine without any decoding errors".
I'm on Krita version 4.2.0,
My PC's stats are:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.20GHz
16GB RAM
64-bit Windows 10 Home
The animation itself is 72 frames long, 130x130px at 12 FPS.

I don't have any idea on how to fix this, even after looking for a solution for about 45 minutes now.
I still have the animation saved as a .kra file, so I don't have to worry about losing any details about the animation, which is good.
If anyone has any ideas what the issue might be I'd love to hear it and try it out. Thanks in advance for every reply! <3

Start with upgrading to 4.2.8, you're eight versions behind.

Now I'm finally able to render the animation, but for some reason the gif/mp4 file (I've tried both) is "corrupted" and stacks the first frame over into the second frame, a small part of the animation is just stuck entirely and doesn't move at all, another part has some weird coloring issues and the logs still say that "everything worked fine without any decoding errors".

Are you sure it is in both gif and mp4? Cause in gif it's expected if you are trying to make a transparent gif; they are unsupported in Krita right now, you'd need to add a custom argument to ffmpeg I believe to make it happen... if it happens in both, please try rendering as "Both" and then examine whether frames were correct or not.

At first I had problems even rendering the animation without Krita just crashing entirely. (This was fixed after installing ffmpeg on my C drive instead of my D drive)

It would be good to get a crash log from this so Krita shows a warning or error message instead of crashing if there is anything wrong like that... https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_man ... ugger.html

Where did you get your ffmpeg from? The ffmeg 4.2.1 64-bit Windows Static build is here: https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

Have you read and followed the instructions in the manual?: https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_man ... ation.html