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# 1 11-01-2003 , 07:11 AM

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I have made an animation. how do i save the ani as an avi? when i save the render as an avi, its only one frame.

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# 2 11-01-2003 , 07:14 AM

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You need to go into your render globals and set the start and end frame of your animation. Rendering to avi in Maya isn't the best option though. It's better to render out your animation as an image sequence using tif or tga and import into compositing software such as After effects and render to AVI from there.

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# 3 11-01-2003 , 02:25 PM

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i suggest doing the normal method(which mrmacca posted) and then using a free software such as Vdub(try google search)... i do it that way... although i have after effects

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# 4 11-01-2003 , 05:54 PM

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I also use free software for this purpose. Mine's called VideoMach.

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# 5 11-01-2003 , 06:08 PM

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ok.

So, if I have multiple frames, and render it as a tif, then the whole sequence will be in there? user added image

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# 6 11-01-2003 , 07:12 PM

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well, you have to tell it your start and end frames. You'll also want to give it a file name at the top, and usually choose "frame.#.ext" as the format.

Also, keep in mind that if your animation is over 9 frames long (as in 10+) you want to give it a frame padding of at least 2. If over 99 frames (100+) give a frame padding of 3.

This is all done in the Render Globals by the way. user added image

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# 7 12-01-2003 , 03:41 AM

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amazing, truly amazing. This is pretty much exactly the same thing I asked when I first joined.

thanx for the names of the free software guys - I'll have to check em out!

Take a glance at my <a href="https://forums.simplymaya.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9428"><b>Porsche 959</b></a> WIP

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# 8 12-01-2003 , 07:34 AM

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LOL. glad i could amuse you.

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# 9 15-01-2003 , 03:29 PM

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can any help me because when i m opening downloded free video tutorials not opening & error is "File is corrupt".CAN ANY ONE GUIDE ME

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# 10 15-01-2003 , 03:50 PM

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start a thread on it... i am sure you will get an answer.. btw, you have to get the techsmith codec (divx) for viewing it.

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# 11 15-01-2003 , 06:21 PM

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omg

You dont just start your own question on some one elses post. Now If I wanted to now ask anohter uestion I could, but it is rude to do it to some one elses post. Learn forum ethics.

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# 12 19-01-2003 , 04:46 AM

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ok, ive made an ani. I told it to start at frame 1, end at frame 90. set the img format to AVI, gave it the name movie. I render it. When i render it, it renders the first frame, nothing else shows up...

When I go 'File> Save Image' now movie format is there. HELP?? user added image

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# 13 19-01-2003 , 05:58 AM

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you don't set the image format to .avi. You set it to .tga or .tiff or something. That will give result in a sequance of images. If you have 90 frames, you'll have 90 images. You'll then take those into one of the programs that we mentioned earlier or another one and create an avi with it.

As for it only rendering the one frame, try Optimizing your Scene size (File > Optimize Scene Size). If that still doesn't work, I've seen that selecting all your objects and exporting them to a new file work in such an occurance. If neither of them work, I'm not sure.

Remember, though, that selecting an .avi format will only render one file.... an avi file. Maybe that was what it was doing.

Good luck!

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