Calling all Maya - AE Compositers

[Phred42]

.SGI or .TGA should work fine out of Maya. If you had AE 5.5, you could also use .IFF and the .ma (Maya camera import) stuff, though. It's a good upgrade to get...only $100 or so IIRC.

[BadKarma]

ahhh cheers man, and will that work wiv animations too?

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[Phred42]

Wow, you're not kidding about the n00b thing in your sig! ;)

Yes, it'll work fine with animations. Maya only really renders out image sequences. In the render globals, set your image format to something After Effects will read (8-bit/channel .SGI or .TGA.) I usually set Frame/Animation Ext to "name.#.ext", and frame padding to 4. Unless you turn on "composite" down in Render Globals->Render Options, Maya will premultiply the edges of your animation's fill with whatever your camera's background color is set to (usually black), so be sure to interpret your rendered 3d footage correctly in after effects when you import it, otherwise you'll get a fringe around your 3d elements. Good luck!

[BadKarma]

hahaha cheers mate ! lol

hopefully soon i will be able to get some compositing action going :D b4 i got uni which is always good lol

Cheers again

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