Hello,
When I got to record an animation it saves it as roughly 250 kb of black screen, or if I save it as uncompressed, it is a larger file, but still a black screen. When I try to open these files in VLC I get an error about AYUV codec not being supported by VLC. I have also tried to save the animations as a series of images, all of which are black.
Hi Peter
Is your SolidWorks running in OpenGL mode? Please check by closing any files you may have open then look to Tools > Options > System Options > Performance > Make sure "Use Software OpenGl" is unticked.
Beyond this you should also make sure your graphics card driver is up to date and supported by SolidWorks. You can check this here:
Graphics Card Drivers | SOLIDWORKS
If you need to update the driver you'll need to restart SolidWorks and create a new avi file to test this.