rendering a video

# 1 21-11-2008 , 06:21 PM

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I batch rendered a 3d sword... its not moving just the camera is moving (im bsing something for a quick project) and i have 2 questions.... 1 does maya have a timer that it times out a batch render after? because my render timed out, and 2 i then imported the batch files into premier and they were targa files, when i put them into a sequence they were each 4 seconds long and it made something that should have been relatively short about 30 minutes long. did i do something wrong or do i have to speed it up 3750% to make each render a frame

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# 2 21-11-2008 , 06:32 PM

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Look at Mike's render globals tutorial. It should give you the basics as how to render everything out.

https://www.simplymaya.com/movie_page...html?tut_id=49

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# 3 22-11-2008 , 03:45 AM

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i followed it exactly except i used premier pro cs3 instead of videomach and insted of each render being a frame, each render turned into a 4 second long snapshot making the video well... a slideshow

im thinking maybe it was the way i imported it do i have to to is as a batch import or just file > import?

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# 4 22-11-2008 , 11:05 AM

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Ok, I know what you're talking about. It's a setting in Premiere. Go to Preferences > Still images...and change the default setting from the default 150 duration to 1 and that should do it.

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# 5 22-11-2008 , 01:31 PM

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woot thankz the movie is rendering and it is no longer 6 million frames long lol

by the way do u know if there is an automatic timeout function in maya cause it times out my renders after a couple hours in every time

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# 6 22-11-2008 , 02:49 PM

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No, it shouldn't. Could be your system. If you're rendering with Maya actually open for your batch render, try closing everything and doing it via command line. Here's a tut:

https://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorial.../command01.asp

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# 7 01-12-2008 , 11:55 AM

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im on a mac when im using maya (the only room in the whole school with macs of course) so ill try to find a command prompt on it lol

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# 8 03-12-2008 , 04:56 PM

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BTW - when importing an image sequence into premiere, choose file>import, select the first frame of the sequence and turn on the "numbered stills" check box - this will bring in the sequence and treat it like a single movie.

Make sure though it is imported at the right frame rate - it can be changed by right-clicking it in the project bin, and choosing "interpret footage".

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