Frame Rate Preferences Bug?

[user_deleted]

Not sure what board this belongs in, but here goes.

I've noticed what must be a bug in Maya 7, and am curious if anyone else has found this.

I have not been able to make Maya use NTSC (30 fps) as the default frame rate, regardless of what I try to do.

I've tried setting it in Preferences, saving preferences, closing and reopening Maya and it still reverts to Film (24 fps). I even tried trashing my preferences and starting from scratch to no avail.

This is a serious pain if you don't work in Film. Everything I do goes to DVD or video and needs to be in NTSC format. It's kind of silly to have to manually set each and every project to NTSC before I begin.

This becomes a HUGE problem when working in a group setting, because it is almost guaranteed someone on the team will forget to do this and you'll have to make adjustments to keyframes.

I've also found an interesting issue. When I open a scene that is in Film format and try to change it to NTSC, Maya will let me close the file without saving. Seems strange that adjusting the frame rate isn't considered a major enough change to merit a save, but moving the viewport angle or display shading is.

I have been able to consistently recreate this behavior on every machine I've tried this on:

Open Maya (Do absolutely nothing to the scene)
Open Preferences
Hit Cancel
Close Maya or create a new scene.
Maya will ask if you want to save changes.
This is after doing nothing, not even moving the camera.
Now repeate the same steps, but select "Save" instead of "Cancel" when closing preferences and Maya will not ask you to save the scene. (This would make sense if it was saving the preferences, but it isn't in the case of Frame Rate)

So, does anyone know a way to FORCE Maya to use NTSC as the default frame rate?

[rob-bateman]

annoying isn't it. I've not found a way, there doesn't seem to be any optionVar set, just a file specific param. Why they are in the preferences i do not know.

[endhigh]

I've had the exact same experience except with PAL settings always reverting to FILM 24 fps.
Never happened like this in earlier iterations of Maya (v2 > v6.5).

Anyone out there got an idea why this is happening?

update:

just had another look at this. Tried deleting the userPrefs but still to no avail.
Then manually edited this file in Notepad - changed as follows:

-sv "workingUnitTime" "film";
and
-sv "workingUnitTimeDefault" "film";

to

-sv "workingUnitTime" "pal";
and
-sv "workingUnitTimeDefault" "pal";

seems to be ok now. Try doing this with ntsc instead of pal and confirm it works for you to.

Still like to know why Maya 7 isnt saving its prefs properly (Win XPSP2)

[joojaa]

itsa ctualy missing a few lines of code. Actualy the whole animatin tab seems to be half ignored.

[user_deleted]

Thanks for the tip! That fix works for me.

Hopefully, they will fix this in the next build.