How to Render at 25fps?

[serpico]

Hi, I'm a new maya user (maya3/win 2k)and I don't know how to render out an avi files at 25 fps for printing to video. I have already set everything regarding unit/rate in "general preferences/render globals" but using the "batch render" I always get an avi at 30 fps (I check the property with right click on the avi files in win 2K). Saving my scene as an ASCII file I can see the command "Currentunit .... pal" .
Where is the fault?
If You know please Help me!

[actarus]

Are you SURE you have set the framerate in the animation
prefrences?? Click the little icon on right right hand side
of the timeslider.

-Tomi A.D.
Tomi@tad3d.com
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[serpico]

thanks for your help, but seems that everythings is set in the correct way and the framerate is still 29.976 fps instead of 25 fps .
Below I wrote my settings :
In the menu Window->Setting/Preferences or
in Animation preferences under 'Categories' is set Working units: Settings->Time = PAL (25 fps)
under 'Categories' in 'Timeline' : Playback->Playback speed = Normal (25 fps)
In Render Globals : Image format is set to .avi
in Resolution device aspect ratio : 1.333 , pixel aspect ratio : 1
Field options is set to Frames .
The strange thing is that if I render with PlayBlast I get the right FrameRate (25fps) and if I save the file as file.ma with ASCII editor I can see the command :
currentUnit -l centimeter -a degree -t pal;
only if I use BatchRender the fps is always 29.976 (NTSC)(
...to be sure I load the .avi in Premiere 5.1c )
Could it be a fault interwork within Win2k and Maya 3 (before than the final version it was installed the beta 2 with the same problem)???
Thanks I'll appreciate your help!

[jtk77]

ah , I don't think you can render out of maya to an AVI at anything but 29.97 , thats got to be your problem. AVIs out of maya are a bad way to go anyway. If you render out an image sequence then take it into a post utility you should have 25 frames a sec.
Unless you can get into the avi options ( which I don't beleive you can in Maya ) then you can't tell it what compressor if any to use , what frame rate and other options that are needed .

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[serpico]

I thought it was possible to render an AVI animation/file at PAL (25fps)frame rate (..it seems possible only with playblast..) as in other 3D programs like Lightwave/3DMax . If I UNDERSTOOD from You this is NOT in MaYa . So I'll keep your suggestion and I will save the animation as a sequence file and again I'll load in Premiere to obtain the final movie (with transition , compression..and finally with the correct framerate).
Thanks !