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When blender is rendering I can see my model but at the very end the render goes black and the image saves as a black image. I am using cycles. Any help would be awesome!

gandalf3
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  • What exactly did you do to fix the the previous issue? – gandalf3 Jul 26 '14 at 02:28
  • wohoo you are back! I was rendering two layers at once and my crown was hiding behind one of them apparently. What should I do for this new problem? – rain Jul 26 '14 at 02:37
  • I was hoping I would be able to tell what the current problem is by what you did to fix the previous issue, but it seems @David beat me to it ;) – gandalf3 Jul 26 '14 at 02:39
  • @gandalf3 wow, that is a message I did not except to see :) PS with the @ name in the middle of the message it did not alert me. – David Jul 26 '14 at 02:43

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It sounds like the Use Nodes check mark in the compositer is checked, but the image is not connected to the output.

To fix the above issue you can:

  1. If you are not using the compositer on your image, uncheck the Compositing check mark in the Properties window.
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  2. If you do want to use the compositer, then you will need these two nodes at a minimum; the Render Layers and the Composite nodes.
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David
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    You are the man works perfectly. Thanks for taking the time to help me this is my first project on cycles. This community is awesome. – rain Jul 26 '14 at 02:39
  • Blender 3.0, I have the same symptoms, the solution in this post had no effect. – Arnaud Oct 02 '22 at 15:09
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This is simple. After the render, change the layer in the top right corner from composite to view. Hope this works!

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  • Hi, thanks for the post. This site is not a regular forum, answers should be substantial and thoroughly explain the solution and required workflow. One liners and short tips rarely make for a good answer. If you can [edit] your post and provide some more details about the procedure and why it works feel free to restore it, otherwise it may be deleted or converted into a comment. Perhaps add a few images illustrating the workflow and final results. See How do I write a good answer? – Duarte Farrajota Ramos Oct 27 '21 at 12:02
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On the navigation bar, next to the layout names, click the little plus icon. Hover over Video Editing and click on it.

example 1

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If you see any clips on the timeline, delete them and then render your image again.

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It is also possible to inadvertently have no denoiser selected.

  ❶  In the Properties window,
  ❷  select the Render Properties tab and
  ❸  expand the Sampling ⮞ Render ⮞ Denoise option.

Make sure you have a denoiser algorithm selected.

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        ⮤ Missing Denoiser Algorithm

If Denoise is not checked then this is not the reason your render is turning black.
(You should select a denoiser anyway, though.)

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