Squashed rendering

[borisz]

My batch renderings are coming out squashed...I am rendering tiffs to fields at 720x486 (digital video) but the final files are 720x243, squashing not cropping the image. When I render within Maya the renderings are normal. Anyone know what's going on here?
Chris

[cmg]

Hi,

You will have to adjust your Aspect Ratio, probably to Device 1.333 and Pixel 0.889.

Try that, Just make sure have Aspect locked before you change the Resolution and it will automatically do it for you.

Later,
Chris Gottgetreu
Sirius Animation

[ptits]

Each field ( even and odd )put in separate "squashed" file. You need to use Maya
FieldAssembler (/aw/mayaX.X/bin) to put them together in one normal frame with fields.

Sergei.

[borisz]

Sergei,
Your answer seems promising. Could you please tell me exactly how to access the field assembler window?
Thank you,
Chris

[rkb]

chris, you really would do well to read the books on this one. see "Using Maya | Rendering" p 220
type interlace -h for interlace options

[borisz]

I am running on NT so "interlace -h" is not an option. The maya docs on the Field-assembler are I think a bit lacking...page 223 of the Using-Maya rendering manual says for help with "FieldAssembler" "select Help>Help from within the FieldAssembler window," however it does not say where the fieldassembler window is! So, where is the field-assembler window? Thanks, Chris

[ebok]

I am having precisely the same problem on SGI. I have to agree that the documentation really stinks on this one. In a UNIX shell i have tried every possible combination according to what they have listed. I have 6 frames - test.0001o.tga, test.0001e.tga,...test.0006o.tga,test.0006e.tga that I need to interlace. What I want is test.0001.tga - test.0006.tga as the end result, and I don't want to delete the original files. What is the proper syntax? typing "interlace [-a 1 6 1] [-e 4] [-t tga] test.tga" gives me a result of "missing ]." What am I doing wrong? Does someone have an example of the proper syntax that I can see? the Maya docs sure don't.

Thanks,

Eric Keller

[ebok]

I figured it out! Ha! For me this was a UNIX newbie problem coupled with confusing documentation. For all you SGI users out there with a bunch of squahed renderings (sorry NT) after you have rendered out file.0001o.tga, file .0001e.tga...etc, open a unix shell. If you type interlace -h you will get the help file but it's not so helpful. Move to the directory that contains you rendered files and follow the instructions but leave off all the brackets - this is what got me. In other words type interlace -a # # # -e # -t tga and then the file name as file (no extension). Then it will process your images

ex.

interlace -a 1 100 1 -e 4 -t tga file

will give you file.0001.tga to file.0100.tga and they won't be squashed no more!

Hope this helps someone out there! Now if I can just fix my flickering highlights....

Eric Keller

[ptits]

On WindowsNT taskbar click "Start", select "Run", then type
C:AWMaya2.5binFieldAssembler.exe,

If you have Maya installed on another drive change C: to the correct letter.
Sergei