Difficult to reproduce because it seems to be architecture related.
You can help a bit to narrow the problem if:
You can confirm that you can or cannot export to png target or ffmpeg target. This would let us know if it is a specific problem of gif target or the render system.
You confirm that you choose Magick++, Auto or ImageMagick as target for a gif extension at the render dialog.
You show the whole output of the terminal (black window) before you close the error message window.
I’m experiencing the exact same issue. I am on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. Answering your question:
1.) Exporting as .png worked fine for me. So did ffmpeg.
2.) imagemagick crashed with: (synfigstudio.exe:6972): glibmm-Error **: unhandled exception (type unknown) in signal handler
magick++: the same, but in line(?) 7648
auto: 7884 …
3.) for ‘gif’ as selected output, the terminal gives the following output:
D:\Programme\Synfig\bin>synfigstudio.exe
synfig studio -- Anwendung starten...
synfig(8080) [23:25:15] info: Loading modules from D:\Programme\Synfig\etc\synfi
g_modules.cfg
synfig(8080) [23:25:15] info: Loading plugins from D:\Programme\Synfig\share\syn
fig\plugins
synfig(8080) [23:25:15] info: Loading plugin: add-skeleton-simple
synfig(8080) [23:25:15] info: Loading plugin: view-unhide-all-layers
synfig(8080) [23:25:15] info: Loading plugins from C:\Users\dher\Synfig\plugins
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: attempting to add an interface
(GtkTreeModel) to class (gtkmm__CustomObject_KeyframeTreeStore) after class_ini
t
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: attempting to add an interface
(GtkTreeDragSource) to class (gtkmm__CustomObject_KeyframeTreeStore) after clas
s_init
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: attempting to add an interface
(GtkTreeDragDest) to class (gtkmm__CustomObject_KeyframeTreeStore) after class_
init
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property gtkmm_
_CustomObject_N6studio17CellRenderer_TimeE::time after class was initialised
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property gtkmm_
_CustomObject_N6studio17CellRenderer_TimeE::fps after class was initialised
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property gtkmm_
_CustomObject_N6studio22CellRenderer_ValueBaseE::value after class was initialis
ed
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property gtkmm_
_CustomObject_N6studio22CellRenderer_ValueBaseE::canvas after class was initiali
sed
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property gtkmm_
_CustomObject_N6studio22CellRenderer_ValueBaseE::param-desc after class was init
ialised
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property gtkmm_
_CustomObject_N6studio22CellRenderer_ValueBaseE::value-desc after class was init
ialised
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property gtkmm_
_CustomObject_N6studio22CellRenderer_ValueBaseE::child-param-desc after class wa
s initialised
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property gtkmm_
_CustomObject_N6studio15ValueBase_EntryE::editing-canceled after class was initi
alised
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: attempting to add an interface
(GtkCellEditable) to class (gtkmm__CustomObject_N6studio15ValueBase_EntryE) aft
er class_init
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property gtkmm_
_CustomObject_N6studio22CellRenderer_TimeTrackE::value-desc after class was init
ialised
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property gtkmm_
_CustomObject_N6studio22CellRenderer_TimeTrackE::canvas after class was initiali
sed
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property gtkmm_
_CustomObject_N6studio22CellRenderer_TimeTrackE::adjustment after class was init
ialised
(synfigstudio.exe:8080): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property gtkmm_
_CustomObject_N6studio22CellRenderer_TimeTrackE::enable-timing-info after class
was initialised
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
Hope that helps. I’ll try to continue the tutorial with another rendering option …
(Although I’m interested in what the solution to the problem will finally be …)
UPDATE:
After hitting ctrl-c in the console, another few lines were put out:
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
synfig(8080) [23:28:11] error: 3 canvases not yet deleted!
synfig(8080) [23:28:11] error: 2 layers not yet deleted!
synfig(8080) [23:28:11] info: DockManager::unregister_dockable(): "pal_edit" has
been Unregistered
pure virtual method called
terminate called without an active exception
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
And after that the cmd.exe from which I launched froze in a way that pressing ctrl-c again has no effect. The synfigstudio.exe process is still running and can only be killed with a kill signal (taskmanager, process monitor, …).
I am also experiencing this same exact error. I’m using Synfig 0.64.2 on Windows 8.1 64-bit.
I am also able to export as .png and .ffmpeg.
When I try to render a .gif with the target of either gif or magick++, then I get the pop up error and the program crashes.
Target auto & imagemagick (ImageMagick 6.7.7-10 2014-03-08 Q16 imagemagick.org)
a gif file is created but with corrupted data :
synfig(8320) [19:08:05] info: 'gif' is a known extension - using target 'imagemagick'
(synfigstudio:8320): glibmm-ERROR **:
unhandled exception (type unknown) in signal handler
convert.im6: Fin de fichier inattendue `-': No such file or directory @ error/rgb.c/ReadRGBImage/229.
Hello, everyone!
Sorry for the trouble with that bug. We have fixed this issue and will provide a bugfix release for that. Unfortunately, I can’t promise to do that earlier then 1st of December.
I’ve just registered in order to let you know that I had exactly the same problem, so I tried the link provided above by Zelgadis, and it turned out that now it works brilliantly without any problems.
now render gif fine also under debian (using custom build…), magick++ target missing, but this will be fixed i’m sure … Bug report #702 - Render as gif crash
I believe I have this same crash on my mac. Just installed Synfig. Tried following the first animated gif tutorial. When I try to render KnightRider.gif the entire application crashes.
