Max renders only 4.9 secs

[Anonymous]

Hi, I'm working on a little animation moovie but when I tried to render the first scene I noticet that Max renders only  4.9 secs howerver the scne has 380 frames wich should be around 12 secs (whith 30 fps). I tried to create a new project but it does the same thing. Any Idea?

[PROH]

Hi. You need to give us more information about rendering setup, the used renderer, output format etc. etc. You might also explain your problem a bit more accurate, ie. how many frames does Max render before stopping (frames - not sec.), is there any warnings popping up.

Help us helping you 🙂

[Anonymous]

After reading your answer I re-rendered the scene to see what happens exactly. It's funy but nothing. There is no warning, At the rendering window I can see the last frame ( the 381th one) rendered. It looks correctly, but when I import the output file to SonyVegas or play it, it's only 4.9 secs witch is around 147 frames instead of 380.
I use avi as output file format and if it's intresting I seted to uncompressed.

[Steve_Curley]

Never render directly to avi - very bad practice. Render to an image sequence (png, tif, tga - any lossless format) then create your avi from the images. So many reasons for not rendering direct - main one being that when there's a problem you have to re-render the whole thing, which takes a lot of time. Creating an avi from images is very quick in comparison.

[Anonymous]

Thx, It solves the problem 🙂 But it is still interesting...