CGTalk - rendering problem

animationking

11-30-2002, 07:43 AM

i have no idea was this started to happen. Everytime i try to batch render an avi, in about 30 seconds, it says the render is completed, but there is no movie!!!! i didnt chamge anything, it just started to do this....This is soo annoying. can anyone help?

maybe my options are wrong:

seb4d

11-30-2002, 09:08 AM

I'm not sure to understand why Maya does that.
All I suggest you is to render your scene as an image sequence and not an avi. Then you can compile all your images in a video application like After Effects....

Tolerate

11-30-2002, 09:09 AM

I'm not really sure

only thing it might be is that you have it set to single frame but then its letting you adjust the start and infinsh frames

i never render as an avi, i alwasy render as a .tif sequence

svenip

11-30-2002, 02:54 PM

might be a problem with the Z Channel !?!?

try turn it off.

animationking

11-30-2002, 04:52 PM

I've already tryed all of those... it does that when i render anything, even images.

Just wondering, after you render as tif sequence, what do you do to make it a movie? Its better that way because its a much smaller file right?

klinker

11-30-2002, 05:01 PM

i had never rendered an avi with maya. only tiff (or targa) - sequences. so u have no compression (ergo best quality) and no problem to modify every tif/tga one by one, if u like.

u only have to import it as an imagesequence in quicktime pro.

good luck

Sanctuary

11-30-2002, 08:23 PM

make sure ur camera1 is set to Renderable in the Output section from camera1`s AE

or could be a problem with the .avi codecs installed on you system

swag

11-30-2002, 09:20 PM

dont use avi - image sequence are more flexible u can use fcheck for a fast test and go for VirtuelDub (search with google) the new version can read tga

dmcgrath

12-01-2002, 05:17 AM

Except that rendering .avi files in Maya end up HUGE, you dont have anything going wrong in the Render Globals.
Of course if you render seperate files, you need compositing software to put them together and compress them.

Render something again and open the script editor, and see what's going on, and where the files are going.

If you read something you can't understand, take another screencap and post it here.

animationking

12-01-2002, 04:12 PM

solved it! Thanx sancuary, i made my camera rendarable and it worked. why was it off anyway? i dont remember even going to the camera attributes

so what program do you guys recommend i get? Id like to know a couple before i go out and get one

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