Maya Playblast question

[cheerio]

So I'm trying to learn how to animate at 24 fps instead of 30 and am running into a problem. How can I render playblasts at 24 fps? It seems like everything I do adds extra frames to my playblast. When I play my animations in Maya, the frame rate says ~24 fps, but it looks nothing like the playblast. The playblast looks much slower(I'm assuming it has to do with the extra frames). I have a frame counter running, so I can see the actual frame numbers in the playblast, but I get values like:1.8,2.6,3,3.9 etc...Does anybody know how to solve this problem? Thanks for any and all help.

-Tim

[gmask]

Do you have your playback in maya set to realtime 24fps? What are using to view the rendered playblast movie?

[overdriven]

When the playblast is running in fcheck hit "t" for real time (24 f/s)

[cheerio]

Hey thanks for the responses...
I do have it set to 24fps in my prefs. I've been using a program called Windows Media Player Classic. I guess some guy wrote it. It looks like the old windows media player, but shows fps and also "frames rendered". The animation that I have been working on has 220 frames, but this program says that it has rendered 290 or so... I have tried multiple codecs and all do the same thing. I tried fcheck and it too rendered extra frames.

When I render a playblast, am I supposed to see frame numbers such as 1.8, 2.6...I was hoping to see 1,2,3,...Am I just over looking something?
Thanks again-Tim

[cheerio]

Ok I think I got it working now...I guess there was something wrong with my user prefs file. I deleted it restarted Maya and everything works as it should. Thanks for all of your help.
-Tim

[wcy93]

you may have had your playback options set to something other than 1.0

in your playback options window, there is an "other" and a "playback by" type in boxes, which will allow you to play an animation slower or faster depending on the number you enter. you might have had your playback by set to 0.75 or something...

something to check if it happens again.