Matinee Crash when rendering to movie, happens from 4.6.1+.

I’m unsure where to post this, but lacking a bug report subsection I’ve gone for Animation. Also put it on the Answerhub. If it doesn’t belong on the , remove it.

Anyway, I’ve been getting crashes without exception when trying to render out any matinee sequence via “Create A Movie”. This has started in 4.6.1, and continues in 4.7.1,
though I did not try it under the currentmost update yet. Before, I’ve recorded just fine in 4.3, which was the last version I used before migrating to 4.6.1 and newer.

I’ve tried it with a scene which has lots of high-poly / high texture resolution assets, and regardless of rendering to frames or avi, whichever FPS count or resolution,
it always opens up the new window to record, goes black then white and crashes. Checking to close the editor beforehand doesn’t do anything either.

The same happens when I reopen a legacy map from 4.3 and even when creating a new 4.7.1 project on the FPS example map, with nothing added but a plain matinee sequence to test it.
What could possibly be behind it?

Posting the AnswerHub link so if this gets resolved, other users can find solution easily: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/183690/matinee-crash-when-rendering-to-movie-happens-in-4.html

Not sure if your problem got resolved or not but I had a similar problem. Does your Hard drive have a lot of empty space? Mine kept on crashing because the avi file is so massive it was affecting my hard drive.