render to avi

[brendon]

Hi, im still new to maya. How can I generate an avi for playback. I've render my scene using IPR and set image format to avi but it wont animate after it finish render, just a still picture. Have I forgot to set something?

please help.

-brendon

[deke-kincaid]

IPR rendering doesnt work for animation. It is a texture/lighting tuning tool. Only renders single frames.

[brendon]

oh I see, I need your advice. How can I render multiple frame/sequence for my animation? Do I have to install a new plugin or MAYA have this feature. I already used Hash but I prefer to use MAYA because of flexibility, I know every 3D softwares have this, just dont know where to find it. I already search thousands of tutorials but still I cant find one. Im still new in Maya and still learning. please help.

[deke-kincaid]

Read the manual, hit F1 on your keyboard while in maya. This is maya basics 101.

[brendon]

I already done that, but still I cant find it, already set the file setting to avi format. but when I played the file, it only display the first frame...can you refer any detail tutorials on the net?

thanks for your fast reply/

[deke-kincaid]

Batch Render.

Also dont use avi in maya. You can only render out uncompressed avi files in maya. The file probably wont even playback at the correct frame rate because you hard drive cant sustain the data rate needed to playback an uncompressed file. Instead render sequential frames and load them up in fcheck or another app that can load up frames and save them as a movie: afterfx, premiere, quicktime pro.

[brendon]

Is this the only way to generate a movie? Coz this is time consuming...I mean is there any other way to generate an avi, qtime movie, or any video format without generating multiple sequence of image. Coz in HASH & 3D Max, I can just click a button and save it as any video format without going these steps.

Any suggestions? Any how, again thanks for your time.

[stevesayer]

I'm sorry if it sounds very snobby, but the fact is that Maya was designed to be a professional, high-end tool for use on high-end workstations. Therefore it doesn't have the ability to output to compressed AVI. I would imagine that high-end audio recording equipment doesn't natively record to a highly compressed mono MP3 format either, you know?

If you're serious about using Maya you will either get equipment capable of playing back uncompressed AVIs, or you will make compressing your work for viewing part of your workflow.

If that's too much of a headache, well, as you've already said, Hash and Max have the capabilities you're looking for.

Again, I don't mean this to sound snobby. It's just the way the high-end 3D CG world works.

Good luck with it.

-Steve

[brendon]

At least I know now, I do have an high end hardware here. but still I need to buy a video card. Can you give me a link or video specs for IBM Netfinity 5xxx series. what video cards are you using?

[joojaa]

Yeah sure you can sustain uncompressed avis ita ll depends on many things, since even some pretty crap machines can sustain a 300*200 vai today but try to sustain the full sice cicr pal at 25 fps (also if you have much memory to spare then the computer can fix this by loading it up in memory but if you have a 30 minute clip then youre out of luck)

Anyways there are many benifits for not rendering into avis even uncompressed ones (not to mention the benefits over compressed stuff). Its nice to know that you can sometimes see very bad aliasing artifacts because the cheapass studio didnt use a uncompressed pipeline, and got copression on compression on compression... (ok this is becoming rarer an rarer, but every now an then you see this on television).

[brendon]

ya these make sense...I myself hate compression it really generate certain lost for the video. But is this possible putting video's into a 3D model? Or do I have to export my video into sequence of images then import to MAYA. what if a video contain 30sec clip, imagine the file it will generate if we try to export to sequence of images...If there is a way without doing this, can you send me some tutorials or guide.

again thanks