Mornin' Dean!
There's a few ways you can go about this. one is rendering, like you've already experienced. Other is a **** cool feature Max added at some point (2017, maybe?), and something Maya's had for a long time--creating a "playblast," or "Make Preview" as it's called in Max
Easiest way to pull it up is using "****+v" in the desired viewport. You'll see options for what viewport shading mode you want, size, etc. Important thing is to pick "Custom File Type" down at the bottom so you can save the video in a spot you want it later. Then just fire that off, it'll go through each frame using that viewport quality level, and there you'll have it.
For rendering...are you rendering a full animated scene, or just a 360 turntable? I'd say 10 seconds at 30fps, max, would make a plenty smooth turntable for you. 2,000 is obviously going to take a whole lot longer! You can, for preview purposes, change the frames per second down if you really need that long of a sequence rendered (say you're rendering 30fps, just render a 15fps preview to cut down).
As for quality settings, depends on renderer you're using!
