Alright. So I'm pretty new to maya and just learned some basics with motiontracking. What I'm trying to do is motion track a piece of footage, then add an explosion into it. I've created the explosion using about 10 different fluid containers and I motiontracked the footage in another maya scene. I have the solution in mayalive, but I can't figure out how to put everything together. It won't let me export the solution-it brings up an error message and shuts maya down, so I was wondering if it is possible to do it another way. Also, I just got AE CS3 and I've heard you can import the camera movements from maya into an AE scene. What would be the best thing to do? Do you render the explosion against a black background and key into the footage on AE, or do you go about it another way?

I'm very frustrated because the motiontracking is done, the explosion is done, but I can't finish it up.

Could someone tell me step by step what to do?? Sorry for being such a noob!

Thanks a lot!

Michael