Animated Titles break with Blender 2.5.6

[C.H.E.W.S.]

When I select animated titles openshot says no blender frames were given make sure path is correct and blender 2.5 is installed. I have a .deb build of blender 2.54 installed

[Olivier Girard (eolinwen)]

Hi,
see here for having more explanations :
http://openshotusers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=552&start=20&hilit=error+blender
http://openshotusers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=597&start=0&hilit=error+blender
Thanks

[Nicola Ferralis (feranick)]

Openshot 1.2.2 requires Blender 2.50+. However Blender 2.49 is available on the main ubuntu repos. Therefore the animated title is not available. Big usability issue.

[C.H.E.W.S. (tchews)]

Yes I installed 2.54 at the time from a built deb package

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Nicola Ferralis <email address hidden>wrote:

> Openshot 1.2.2 requires Blender 2.50+. However Blender 2.49 is available
> on the main ubuntu repos. Therefore the animated title is not available.
> Big usability issue.
>
> --
> Animated titles don't work
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667376
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> Bug description:
> When I select animated titles openshot says no blender frames were given
> make sure path is correct and blender 2.5 is installed. I have a .deb build
> of blender 2.54 installed
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[ctsdownloads (matt-hartley)]

I have followed this:
https://answers.launchpad.net/openshot/+faq/1299

15 times today. It's dead Jim - fix the feature or remove it as a bug. That would be my advice. ;)

On Ubuntu 10.10 with OpenShot 1.2.2 and Blender 2.50+ installed at the directory described on the howto as explained doesn't work.

Error Output:
No frame was found in the output from Blender

(GUI popup)

and

No frame was found in the output from Blender

(In terminal)

[ctsdownloads (matt-hartley)]

Update: Turns out that it was an upgrade to Ubuntu gone bad. Man, with the PPA added, had a choice of THREE openshot(s) to choose from by looking at it via force version in the package manager.

Not visible unless you use Synaptic's Package>Force Version with Open Shot selected.
1.2.2-maverick
1.2.2-maverick1 (the correct one)
and
1.2.2-1

Also killed off and recreated my ~/blender25 directory...this seems to be a part of my error as it worked after deleting it and re-adding my decompressed blender files there.

Did an apt-get remove purge of the software, then re-added the Open Shot PPA. Success using Blender 2.55 in a /home folder as described in the howto.

Honestly though, how about just creating a script to download this automatically? From there, one can type in the needed info for the path in OpenShot? Seems logical and would save people a lot of frustration. Even better.

New instructions to remove existing installs of Blender and to add the right version to the Open Shot PPA? Am I missing something here? :)

[Tuxi (beck-ripabe)]

I ran openshot from the command line and the error appears to be the use of the directive CENTRAL in the Text Alignment drop down menu. Here's what I think is the relevant section of the console log:

text_object.align = params["spacemode"]
TypeError: bpy_struct: item.attr = val: enum "CENTRAL" not found in ('LEFT', 'CENTER', 'RIGHT', 'JUSTIFY', 'FLUSH')

When I use LEFT or RIGHT, for the alignment, the title is rendered.

[Tuxi (beck-ripabe)]

There is a sed script listed in the comments for Bug #697780. Using this script (using sudo on the /usr/share/pyshared/ directory).

script:

sed -i 's/CENTRAL/CENTER/g' openshot/blender/*.xml openshot/blender/scripts/*.pysed -i 's/CENTRAL/CENTER/g' openshot/blender/*.xml openshot/blender/scripts/*.py

This closes the issue for me as Bug #697780 indicates that it's fixed in the next release.

[Tuxi (beck-ripabe)]

oops, the script should read:

sed -i 's/CENTRAL/CENTER/g' openshot/blender/*.xml openshot/blender/scripts/*.py

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

All blender animations have been updated to support the Blender 2.5.6+ Python API. I will try and make an update to the current version of OpenShot as well... as soon as I can find some time. In the meantime, if you want the Blender animations to work on the current version of OpenShot, just use Blender 2.5.4.