Playblast Error

# 1 26-12-2009 , 11:45 AM

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When I try using Playblast to record my animation Maya gives me this error

Error: could not open or create movie file

In the script editor it says

playblast -startTime 0 -endTime 30 -format movie -filename "GA_0110_ani" -forceOverwrite -clearCache 1 -viewer 1 -showOrnaments 0 -fp 4 -percent 100 -compression none -widthHeight 960 540;
// Warning: playblast can not create movies larger than the active view. Clamping values //
// Warning: playblast requires width and height to be divisible by 4. Modifying values //
// Error: out of disk space. Deleting playblast files //
// Error: could not open or create movie file //
currentTime 0 ;

anyone know what I need to do?

Im using Maya 2008 by the way

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# 2 27-12-2009 , 08:45 PM

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avoiding the warning, it shows disk space error?

Are u overlooking disk space warning?

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# 3 27-12-2009 , 09:32 PM

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Free some space on your HDD

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# 4 28-12-2009 , 06:32 AM

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I have 40 gigs free on my drive

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# 5 28-12-2009 , 10:30 AM

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I've had that problem before, (also with plenty of disk space)..

I found that importing all the stuff into a new scene has worked for me, give it a go.

cheers,
Chris

EDIT: Could alo try moving the -percentage value down to something like 50 while your trying to error check as I have had errors with that before.

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# 6 28-12-2009 , 05:32 PM

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Try writing to an image sequence, and see if that works.

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# 7 29-12-2009 , 10:43 PM

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I dropped the percent to 55 and got it to work, but i need to it be at 100 (as that is what i am instructed to have it at for this project) and I can also do it as an image sequence but im not allowed to do it that way either.

Tried importing it to a new scene but it just messed up my key frames for some reason....any ideas on how to get it to work at 100 percent with movieplayer?

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