animation (8)

[benrickel]

Hi there
I need help regarding rendering animations. I have a scene ready also placed a camera and have animations as well. I go to render globals set the parameters for avi format set the frame start and frame end, then i go do batch render and after the batch rendering is done 100 % what i see in the avi movie is a stagant image. I want to know am i on the right track for animations and if i am where ami i going wrong and if i am not then pls help me in this. I have tried many options to see the animations but still failed.
waiting very eagerly to here form you.
THANX

[gmask]

It really isn't a good idea to render directly to an AVI movie. You should render to an image sequence and then convert it to a movie file.

Have you tried searching highend3d?

www.gmask.com

[mikesmith]

If you just want to view what it will look like.
You can do a playblast with the Render Global stats turned on.

It will take a bit... But It will let you see what is going on just a little bit quicker that Rendering out the Animation to Frames and turning it into an .avi outside of Maya.

Hope that helped,
King
H2O Entertainment

[benrickel]

Hi gmask can you pls tell me how to do this image sequencing thing and how to later convert it into an avi movie.

and vector i did tried the playblast thing but although it shows animations but it does not render the scene i mean its as good as watching the animation in the perspective mode of the MAYA authoring environment withour effects like glass effects etc.
i have tried all the options in the render global menu, plyablast, save batch render etc. also when i want to export it into a MOV it says, cannot save file.

pls help

[joojaa]

Use Maya fusion lite that comes with the package... Or get some other prost processing aplication like after effects.

or as a cheap alternative get quicktime PRO

[daniela]

hi,
to render a sequence of images just set the start and end frame, the file name, the frame /ani ext. (name.#.ext), and the image format. Render to Targa or Tiff. You can view your image sequence with fcheck. I usually just use Premiere for editing/converting later, but u can also render straight to avi, I do it all the time.