WAX fails to render - Can somebody help?

[SearchQuality]

I am using Wax2e to create 3D-animated titles. Although the title plays perfectly when I want to render I get the following message:

"Closing all open plugin windows...Done
Creating file E:\Titles\World
Unable to create file!
** Some compressors require the video frame size to be a multiple of 4.
** Try changing your output frame width and height to multiple of 4 pixels and render. Rendering over."

I checked the frame sizes and made sure that they are multiples of 4. In any case I am not using any compressors. Has anyone else encountered the same problem. Help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Baldrick]

Have you tried use a compression? same error then also?

[SearchQuality]

Yes I used the available compression options allways the same error message.

[SearchQuality]

Is noone else interested in Wax2 rendering or rather not rendering problems? Wax2, if it works, is a very powerfull tool, but unfortunately the biggest problem is to get it to work.

[Bjs]

I use wax2 on occasions, but I would check initial project settings are dividable by 4, and render without compression engaged ... try divisible by 8 or 16 ... raw uncompressed should work without problems.

The default project settings are 320x240 ... no good if your planning 720x576 output

The only time I have seen that problem was with a particular codec used for video compression.

Other than that, its still a very good program, within limitations.

[SearchQuality]

It looks as though I have found the trick to make it work. The idea comes from a thread in the Wax user forum located at http://www.debugmode.com/userforums/viewtopic.php?t=6710.
In the Project settings panel the name of the output file that will be rendered should be followed by ".avi" although in the line below the file type is clearly specified. This is a rather simple yet unexpected solution or bug, whichever word is appropriate. I tried it several times with different projects and it works. Of course there is no garantee that the rendering problem will not show up again. Hope this post will help many people who may and will encounter the problem sooner or later.