Learn Maya 8.5, Part 6/1

[haugaarden27]

where is default file????

[KissJustMimi]

im sorry, i accidentally took away those bottom options where playback is located...how do i get them back?

[sticatron]

dose this work for windows

[Biopony720]

yes it does

[R3p0rt4j35]

hey maya wont start the batch render this is the only problem or wait i had to make to all of your videos

[astaebuna]

You are the best teacher ever!!!Keep the great job.More tutorials please.And thk thk thk!!!

[lilnyc]

Despite a recession, I would PAY for extended courses like this by you.

I took Maya for 2 semesters at NYU in 2003. I am re-visiting Maya now to be a more competitive Video Artist (Video Editor/Motion Graphics Artist).

Your method allows me to jump right back in and retain what I'm learning. I really want more like this. Kudos!

[Ryo123987]

I've got quicktime but I cannot select it, I don't get any options for videos such as Quicktime or WMP. I'm on a Microsoft HP laptop, is that why?

[chompet123]

There's no quicktime option in my maya 2009

[HullUniLecturer]

Try rendering as a sequence of stills as below...

[LiliScarlett8]

Yep, I don't have that either... But here's a way to do it :

Like HullUniLecturer said, render your scene as a sequence of JPEG stills, and import them into Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut (editing software).

When Premiere asks you to specify the path of the file you want to import, you'll have to check a little button (at the bottom of the "import" window) saying someting like "import numbered stills" and it will import the whole sequence as if it were one video !

Good luck !

[Pontiz6]

i've rendered my video as a series of JPEG's instead, but how can i convert them into video?

I have Adobe After Effects and Sony Vegas, can you help me?

[HullUniLecturer]

Try using Premier or Final Cut. Both have options to import sequentially numbered stills. This is by far the best rendering approach as crashed rendering attempts still yield stills to the point when rendering stops unexpectedly....

[kanyne]

Your series of guides were extremely useful and very much appreciated. Thank you for an excellent job, as well as all those behind the scenes to make this happen....I look forward to seeing how this turns out for you, as well as more informative videos. 1

[headbangsniper]

hi iam just wondering how you make glas that you can see through is it rendering ? thanks for help

[MikeT2005]

I don't know what's going on, but when I try to render my animation with my Mpeg 4 codec, Windows Media Player says it's incompatible. I've used that codec to reincode raw, uncompressed video before, and it worked fine on WMP. Anyone got any ideas on why I can't get a Mpeg 4 encoded vid from Maya to work? What codecs did you use and how was the result? When I did a fully uncompressed 1080p vid, it ran fine, but had a choppy frame rate because I didn't allow enough frames for the animation.

[Pontiz6]

Quicktime Movie doesn't appear on my render settings, what should i do?

[goooooooooogleX1]

i reallly need ur help the camera is goin way to fast and i cant see anything.

[goooooooooogleX1]

my camera moves super fast is something wrong?

[muggerman1]

i have the demo can i still do evry thing in this vidio

[belagiorgo]

HullUniLecturer  hello can you help in maya 2009 shelf is empty i dont didnt see nothing icons there but shelf check it

[hubahuba784]

i need help, i have maya 8.5 learning edition and i can t render it opens a page with a lot of number and things and in the top says this: This is a restricted mental ray demo version. Disabled features:

- thread and host parallelism,

- loading and saving of shadow, photon, and final gather map files,

- hardware rendering,

- light mapping, and

- resolutions greater than 512 * 512 (even numbers only).

- A mental ray stamp is overlaid.

And then it doesnt render. what do i do?

[HullUniLecturer]

It sounds like you are trying to use the disabled features on the demo version. Try simple rendering tests using Mental Ray or choose a different rendering method.

[Ryo123987]

I can't batch render on my P.L.E version. It gives me a screen coming up with what I can only assume is coding, like:

TiffFile::putChunk 1447383635 3

TiffFile::putChunk 1431717202 5

TiffFile::putChunk 1145130309 5

TiffFile::putChunk 1297040457 29

TiffFile::putChunk 1346978644 5

TiffFile::putChunk 1213025613 5

TiffFile::putChunk 1329744462 5

TiffFile::putChunk 1229865804 6

How do I fix this?

[PeterFalkesOnMyCase]

Ok guys I've just checked through the Maya documentation and Quicktime is not supported by the windows version of Maya. Mac, however, is supported.

[HomoGoldfish]

I don't think you can zoom out with your mouse when youre using the perspective of the camera. Could you confirm please. Thank you

[IEPBUNLENG016]

this video is the best!!!

[v94j]

i have a problem: i did a animation but when i have du the rendering thing (i dont use quiktime, dont have it so i used avi) but when i are to play it it wont work any one ho can help??

sorry fore spelling and so

[Flubadoodoo]

thank for this awesome vid!!! but i dont just mean this one i watched the whole series and it really helped me!!

ive only had maya for about 6 hours now and im already starting to make projects.. thanks to you! by the way id like to mention that the way you teach is extremely effective and in amazing detail. keep up the good work!

[overmaze]

I allready wanted to learn more about 3d modeling, and animating. And thanks to your tutorials Im learning quickly :) Keep up the good work and I hope to see alot more tutorials from you.

[duncmoney]

Quicktime Movie isn't an option for me. What's up with that? Do I not have Quicktime?

[rfcg4]

my camera is upside down, and it wont look at the block...

how can i fix that?

[Monochrome89]

how do you go about creating a pivot point, i find it tricky.

[0u73rh34v3n]

How do i make the camera move clockwise along the path?

[HullUniLecturer]

Create a camera and a path. Select the camera, then the path using the shift key. Click on animate> motion path>attach to motion path- but click on the little black box next to the words 'attach to motion path'. Tick the 'inverse front' box then attach. Flip the curve and camera over using the rotate tool.

[0u73rh34v3n]

thanks for the quick response!

i believe i tried a similar method, but i shall do what youve just told me and hopefully itll work :)

I WANT TO SEE MORE VIDEOS!!!

[braininabox]

These videos are really gave me a great starting place to make the difficult transition from another 3D package to Maya! Thank you so much...

It makes sense that people interested in 3D Modeling/Animation would probably benefit much more from a strong visual learning aid like this than from a written or auditory learning aid.

[Arkhaor]

How can I slow down camera???

[HullUniLecturer]

Keyframe it.

[chewykiller]

i have quick time but it didnt say quick time movie also when my camrea or object rotats on the curve it stops at frame 24 and goes the other way then keeps repeting that prosses

[lpfann]

ok its a good tutorial but it never tells you how to like create face and make a charecter move with like pivot points

[AlienWebguy]

Dude.. "Maya Basics"

[majdaboud]

i have problem when i change the image format ....i can't find the quick time format ...so i choose the avi format but when i open the file to see my work as a video it doesnt work!!!

please help

[HullUniLecturer]

Check out the comments in section 6/2...this is a common problem and some possible solutions are listed.

[HullUniLecturer]

Must have been a temporary glitch, seems to be running fine now...

[SSzaby23]

Hi!!!

When i click on Batch Render appear a error massage "Wrong number of arguments on call to mayaSoftwareBatchRender."

What is the problem???

PLS HELP!!!!

[tehVMG]

I changed the render settings to AVI and it saves it as avi.tmp and the files are unplayable? any help?

[MartekProductions]

It works in Windows Media player

[the7egend]

If you select AVI, and click compression button underneath it and set it to DIVX codec it will render it using the DIVX Codec and should play fine.

[thatabrzl]

Wow... the video tutorials are great!!!

But i can't find the quick player... i tried avi but it didn't work either!!!... I'm using microsoft... can anybody help me?????

[lambpoons2]

same happened to me!

help REQUIRED

[lpfann]

same happened to me but it doesnt matter, i dont care about a camera spinning around a cube

[garuleutube]

ey, man

thanx robert your tutorials are real help to me.i just installed 8.5 and dint know what,when, how to...after the videos u made...ive got a hang of it in just a day...ive made bout 4\5 rendered objects.

thankyou brother & keep up the brilliant work

hope to see lot more of your work

[mrspoonhead]

I also have a problem. I have no images folder :) I go to C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya 8.5 Personal Learning Edition and there is no "Images" folder. Btw your video's are the most easy to follow helpful tutorials of maya i have ever found :P You should make more ^_^

[MoogieSRO]

Thank you very much for these tutorials, I've been following them and they're extremely useful! I'm having a problem with this one however. After creating a new camera, any objects or paths I create snap to the center of that camera's position and (for curves, at least) they cannot be moved away from it. Any ideas how to solve this? I'd like to be able to create objects *where I draw them* on the grid, but I can't currently do that. Thank you!

[tanyafedorova]

your video's are great thank you very much for them!

however i couldn't understand where the rendered video go? i mean where can i find it?

[HullUniLecturer]

Rendered files usually are placed in the "images" folder by default.

[koschric]

hi

i got the problem that was already mentioned.

my saved avi files always show up with 0kb.

i tried maya hardware and i saved it before but it didnt help. any ideas what i m doing wrong??

anyway thanks a lot for this awesome videos!!

u r great!!

[Nataniel145]

I have the same problem....

[tanyafedorova]

and I =(

[tomsaunders99]

This series was amazing. Thank you so much for spending the time to do this.

I bought two books and spent hours with headaches just trying to get to grips with it. I'm an experienced Flash designer who can now start teaching myself more about Maya.

Thank you so much.

[Ikimono]

I don't have the little white menu that you use to get into the camera perspectives. I must have accidentally hidden it...anyone know how I can get it back?

[mousehound]

I have a little problem i rendered it and it came out and i went into my folder i had saved it as .AVI by the way and i had a go playing it but all i got was a blank screen... ?

[HullUniLecturer]

Check out the comments below...

[ExceptionOE]

It should be noted that sometimes you have to Save the file before it will render as a movie.

Mine went through the actions of rendering but only produced a .iff file no matter what I did. After I saved it rendered as an AVI :-)

Great Tutorial.

[darthst]

Guys for those that cant render, try using HARDWARE RENDERING

[world123space]

For some reason the avi format on my computer doesnt play the movie. Maybe that`s because the Maya is PLE, however, I found by using the gif image format then transferring all the gifs to a freeware device that plays them back in order - then the movie works. (UnFREEz is one such device as is Beneton Movie Gif, however, I`m sure there are many others.)

ps. Great lectures. Greatidea, too. YouTube is really a revolutionary invention.

[yogitect]

Hi. These lectures are great. My avi files are turning up in the right place, but they are 0KB and unplayable.

[HALPCat]

You're an amazing teacher, I've learned so much just in one day!

[HullUniLecturer]

Thanks HALPCat.

[feco1]

i have the PLE ,is that the reason for unplayable .avi.temp format in my rendered movies..??

[albanonabla]

my camera is moving way too fast :(

please, how can i fix this ?

[HullUniLecturer]

Keyframe your cameras.

[albanonabla]

where can i find this option? :)

[HullUniLecturer]

Keyframe and other types of animation techniques are described in Part 5, sessions 1 and 2.

[SatanTheSith]

When I go to render settings> image format, there is no quick time movie, or any other movie format, so I cannot set the start and end frames. help please :(

[HullUniLecturer]

If you are using a PC, the only option may be the .avi video format.

[SatanTheSith]

aww man I'm dumb, I didn't even see avi. Thanks a lot!

[Sylonien1314]

Why don't I have the option for .avi! Really need it!!! Please help.

[951687324]

I have full version of maya 8.5 and when I click render > bacth render, nothing happenes, can somebody haelp me?

[HullUniLecturer]

Try changing from software render to hardware render or vice versa in the render settings menu.

[funkmasterEP]

vwxy why cant you post a video i have the learning version and i was able to do it let me know if i can help

[VWXYZ]

danm, I only have the personal learning version, no rendering for me :'(

but i can use the render current frame ^^ so i can create 3D photo's be taking a screenshot.

its not much ^^ but its still kinda fun, just to bad i can't post the vidoes.

[gemma10001000]

me too

[alexisblack84]

I did it!

[sacredbanana]

There's a free version called Personal Learners Edition.

[concretewhole]

I heard MAYA was a good 3D modeler, but way outta my budget.

[Garfler]

Zbrush is the best modeler it costs only 539 dollars or something like that !!!!!! and it's not like an ordinary modeler neigther u use a brush to drag out bumbs and stuff onh ur model. maya is good for animating/rendering/lighting and it is very powerful and fast too.