Rendering my animation is black, but there is a light? I'm normally a programmer in unity so i know very little about modeling and all that stuff so sorry if this is a stupid question :) What i'm trying to do is make a background video for the main menu.

When i'm in the normal 3d viewport with rendered materials turned on in the bottom and look through the camera everything is fine such as seen here.


However when i go to "Render Animation" in the render tab to make it into a video the view comes back as black even though there is a light as seen here.
Never check the V.S.E. (the black screen you're seeing) for your rendered animation.

To see the outputed footage go to your file explorer and type in C:\tmp at the top (if you are on Windows). There you should see a string of image files for your movie. You can change the output file format and where it outputs to before rendering it. To see the rendered animation from within Blender, hit CTRL+F11.