HOW DO I RENDER A MOVIE?
 

Assuming an animation is created: Try Window > Rendering Editors > Render Globals > Image File Output > Frame/Animation Ext" (open choose name.#.ext) one line down > Image Format (open choose Quicktime Movie [qt] Look 2 lines down & choose Start Frame & End Frame to accommodate the leangth of animation close Globals Now in rendering menue (F5) choose Render > Batch Render Grab a cup-o java & wait for lightning. Make sure you know where the little monster will be going

I just wanna say that your render globals tutorial is great mtmckinley:-))

Cheers!!

awesome!

glad you like it guys.

BTW, DrMayanstein, maybe the Mac version has Quicktime, but my PC version doesn't, so can't comment on how well the quicktime output is. I do know that the .avi output is crap.

I think you need to have the pro version of QT to see it in the encoding choices.

Building on your question, how do you render for just an image to produce a .jpg or .gif?

Thanks!

In the Render View, after rendering your image, go to File > Save As and choose your format at the bottom of the saveing dialog box.

But don't save straight to jpg from maya as it produces crap results. save as a bmp or targa then convert to jpg in an image editing package like photoshop.

Render Movie.. but Texture doesn't move
 

Hi Mt. I've rendered the movie (of the earth spinning no less) and entered the first-last frames, output .avi, (crap) and it IS rendering all the frames, but in the movie the earth doesn't spin (or texture isn't moving?). Even when I do a Render Current Frame, it only renders the 1st frame, although on stage it spins fine. Oh where have I gone wrong?
-Tikiwolf

render a few frames to see if it is moving. If so, render an image sequence as described. If not, I can only imagine something's wrong with the file or PC (ala running out of Ram or whatnot).

Also, one thing you might could try is exporting everything into a new scene and rendering from there.

Rendering Options
 

You might want to look at whether you are rendering via hardware or maya software. I believe that the software has an option box that indicates which frames to include. In my case, it stopped at frame 10 of a 60 frame animation.

Cheers,

Brett

I had problems with Avi as well in that the animation looked as it skiped or something. The IFF format worked really well, unfortunately it can only be opened with fcheck. Is there a way to take an IFF animation and convert it to something else that anyone can view?

Go download videomach, it'll allow you to take your image sequence and save it as a video.

fcheck will save as different file formats. Open an animation and then save as.

But fcheck can only save an image squence as another image squence and not as a video such as mpg.

Right. Sorry, thought that was what he was asking for.

Thank ckyuk, thats what I was looking for.

i don't seem to be having a problem with avi
i just finished the fire ring tutorial and then added a spin to it by adding a camera that would fly into the ring
came out ok for my first hand at it. i rendered the avi with a setting of production quality after that i imported it into my wave video software and changed it to an mpeg2 looks good it does need tweeking but am happy with results.
One note tho in creating the movie next time i will definately remember that 30 frames a second rule and that is allow the viewer time to take in what is being shown i didnt the first time and the scene was over tooooo fast.
TY izzy i believe for the fire ring tut. and you too Mt. for the movie tut.
wooof!!!
p.s. i will try to make a small version of the movie in real player producer to give you a taste of what i am doing altho quality may diminish greatly. Question if its small enuf can i post it in WIP????

Learning Information
 

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For top quality for compositing it seems like you should:

1) Output as image sequence in Targa
2) Open Quicktime Pro (if you buy it) and click I believe its file->load image sequence
3) Load you images... if you open just 000 if I remember correctly it should load ALL the images in correct order.
4) Export the movie as Movie with "Millions of Colors +" as the setting.

That will allow you to have a movie with an alpha channel to use in Adobe After Effects. (Great quality, and the film is already keyed out accurate to whatever level antialiasing you chose)

thank u..i couldn't render a movie till i saw here..u r excellent...

what is the diffrence between maya software, and hardware renders??

how use to network render? i have SXSpider? i can not work this program. help me guys.

maybe someone can help. my computer is stopping rendering where ever it feels. today I rendered for 400 frames and it rendered only 185, the i rendered from 186-400 and it stopped at 245 now322 a cople of days ago it rendered the whole 400 no problems. theres 2 gig of rAM??? It.
's rendering now and IT only knows ehere it will stop. I might do the, make a new scene thing and ee what happens.

video isnt working
 

it seems the video the first post included got only sound and no images, its probably a problem on my side since no one complains....

I tryed with last winamp version and with Windows Media player, winamp had sound but no video, WMP couldnt even read the file....

you may need the latest divx codec

I'm going to go ahead and lock this thread since it is pretty old topic. If there's any questions, feel free to post them in the forum in their own threads.