Thanks Hammer,Perfecto
This my sound like a stupid question but what is the best format to save out as a animation(for the net) and were is the best place to post it...........dave

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Im probably wrong again dave....I use WMV for vids for the net BUT I manage them with Nero 7. So if you have an avi I import then export as WMV as you can nominate either quality or size on the file.

Or after you get an avi Sornsen Squeeze apparently is really good for compression??

To post I would either open a 'Dropbox" account like I have (its free) or 'Yousendit'?? I think starj has 'Vimeo' and uses that. Then you only have to post the link.

If you get the link then post here??

I wanna see this mate.......

cheers bullet

P.S if none of the above is helpful...feel free to ply me with alcohol until I cant stand...

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dave there is another for compression called "Zwei-Stein' its free...but I havent really used it.

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Dont think I will be able to do a animation for this comp all my batch render files are coming out crupt, will just do stills for now, I am gutted a hour and a half waisted rendering. Will try and fix after the comp. Did try on my pod racer batch rendering and that worked so it must be the scene file.............dave

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you could just playblast it.

what are your render out as?

I tried a lot of formats they are all comming out crupt

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Back to the job in hand...........dave

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What are you reading the image files with... maybe that's the problem?

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There not showing in windows as the correct icon,photoshop paint, Like I said earler I change to a nother scene "pod racer" that created batch render ok, must be the scene file. Sorry to change the subject does any one know how to change the end key frame for a motion path............dave

I will reconstuct the scene again because I want to see how it will animate but for this battle I just do not have the time

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I now now what the problem is with the batch render, for some reason maya was leaving the file extention(.tif) of rendered file, how do you change a load of file extentions at the same time?...............dave

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I would create an action script on photoshop or import an image sequence into something like After effects then export out as a different image format

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The problem is the files have no file extention,all the programme do not see the as readable files

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Ahh right.

Just select them in windows explorer and rename them with .tif (or whatever the extension is) at the end and it should open them no problem (test it out on a single image).

If you have them all selected windows will auto rename them with a number.

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Thanks for your help gster123
Yes I have been changing them one at a time but will not allow me to rename the lot with the file extention..............dave

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i'm sure there's a way to mass rename files.. adobe bridge can do it if you have that
if you're on a mac you'd use automator
if you have neither you can use the command line, but i don't know how you do that, i might be able to find out

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