Mac - Maya will not render Quicktime (.mov)

[Anonymous]

Hey there,

I'm new to Maya so excuse me if this is a fairly easy problem to fix.

Anyway, I have been trying to render my movie as a .mov file (no .avi option available on my laptop, for some reason), but the file refuses to be created.

I have rendered it (using batch render) 3 separate times, including once where I changed the file path to my Desktop, to no avail. I'm not really sure what to do, and any help from here would be wonderful.

I am using Maya 2017 Update 4, on a macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.3 (17D102).

Thanks a ton,

Emma

[n8skow]

Are you getting any error messages in the script editor?

Generally, rendering directly to a compressed video format is a bad idea...
You would be much better served to render to an image file sequence instead, and then build your desired video file from that.

[Anonymous]

This seems to be the common response, but I would like to know why I cannot render out to quicktime like I did in the past.  Is it a bug or do I need to download some qt plugin?  The sequence thing is what I do to make it work if I am on the mac, but sometimes I like to just do a nice direct compressed render like I did in the past or how it works on PC.