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Learn how to render movies in Maya and learn more about 3D modeling and animation software in this free instructional video.
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25 responses to “How to Use Autodesk Maya : Rendering Movies in Maya”
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What if im using mental ray and not Maya software? Can I render Videos/Movies in mental ray?
Dude, I have a mac. So what Image Format should I choose (in Render Settings), if I want a video animation of what I created? If I have done that, how do I open it and play it with FCheck?
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@xanvinhduong Make sure the Frame/Animation ext is 'name.#.ext' otherwise the filename will be 'name.tif.23' and won't be recognised as a tif
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@Videoboy45 Thanks for responding. I've hit so many walls and keep asking questions. Although the more time I spend on it the more the walls seem to be coming down. Thank you for your response though, I really appreciate it!
@jadeinshades It's default location should be in My Documentsmayaprojectsdefaultimages
I just downloaded maya trial. This is the first tut I looked at. I followed your instruction, and after I batchrender it says "see mayarenderlog.txt for information". I'm not sure how to find the clip I have just rendered. I'm very noob, and appreciate any help, thank you.
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do the amount of frames have anything to do with whether or not it get render properly? I made a scene which using 500 frames and the script editor just keeps on rendering and it doesn't stop..also I use windows media player does that affect being able to play it also?..This is my first year in school using Maya 2011 and I'm still learning haha any help or advice would be appreciated
@migeto Maya has some problem with avi render,try 2 render with .tga/.tiff
The problem with this is that you end up with 600 image files for those long animations.
I tried rendering out as an AVI and was like with a huge godlike file that had the FPS ass screwy:(
finally, i've looking for this for 3 days
U can but doing it targa you have more options to do mask and differnt thinks in a composeting program. Jpg is a flat layer.
Thanks for the video! I have such a hard time finding help with the simple basics in maya.
it just happens sometimes. it happens to me when i record things on my screen. Putting it into windows movie maker and making a video will fix the color most likely.
WHT ?
you can do this by steps
i dont know why would you do this at the same time o_O
make the render from cam1 then change cam1 ti cam2 in the rendering setting and do another rendering
and BTW are you talking about the viewport ? o_O cause if so it's different
hey Roxonogueira, if you want to see the scene in another camera view, 1) Create your camera, and give it a name e.g. MY_CAMERA. 2)Select Panels /Perspective/ Choose MY_CAMERA. 3)Goto Render settings and on the Common Tab, go down to Renderable Cameras and select MY_CAMERA which you created earlier from the drop down box. 3)Then perform a render. Hope this helps :).
Forgot to mention …Also for the compression settings under the render settings select full frames uncompressed. It make take a little while to render your project depending how big the animation is, but this should work for you.
Hey Buffsta11. Yeah you can save the project as an Audio Video Interleave (avi) file. All you have to do is goto the render options, choose any name for the file name prefix. Then for the Frame animation ext select name.ext (Multi Frame) and the image format to AVI. It seems to work for me. Hope this helps you and anyone else who reads this :).
if you want to render it as an actual movie, you have to set the extension from Targa (like he said) to a Quicktime Movie. Then, when you render, it goes to a .mov…
Hope this helps 🙂
thank you
i ditent get it , how do you wach the movie?