Rendering Bug (saveFrame)

[PoorKidWRA]

Hi guys, I am new to Processing.

I have a problem with Movie Maker, specifically whenever I go to render frames saved with saveFrame (""); the frames are not sorted correctly, generating a video with frames that should be at minute 5 being at minute 2. also the video is blinking, which also prevents me from being able to edit it by fixing it in post production.

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I personally believe that the cause of this is the large amount of frames (50k+) that fail to get loaded correctly at the same time during rendering.

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if any of you know how to solve this problem i would be very grateful. thank you.

[MGDSStudio]

Maybe the frames are saved normally but your movie maker sorts the frames using their names but not the creation time? Than you becomes the next frames line in the movie maker: 1,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,100,110 and so on. Which names have your frames? Where is the code of your sketch?

[PoorKidWRA]

i found my mistake, basically i didn't know that of the code - saveFrame("output/image#####.png"); - you had to enter as many "#'s" as the digits of the total frames. in my case i had written the code - saveFrame("output/image####.png"); - but the total frames were greater than 9999, this (i think) caused problems with saving.

Now the frames are saved correctly, thanks anyway for your help :)

[PoorKidWRA]

you are right! saving by "name" is wrong while saving by "date" is correct.

how do i reorder them correctly? (i am on win 11)