Playblast - Longer Output?

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I'm fairly new to Maya and certainly to animation, so please excuse any mistakes in how I try to describe my query. 🙂

I've created a little walk cycle and if I turn looping on it looks ok in Maya.  I wanted to use Playblast to export an AVI.  I have done this, but only get a very short clip.

I'm assuming that my frame range on the timeline, 0-32, is what Playblast is outputting.

I'd previously turned on the pre/post infinity curves so I could make sure tangents were as needed, I'd hoped that with these infinity curves I could have then just expanded my timeline range, to say 0-64, and then output a longer AVI clip.

Playblast of course does, but I only get 0-32 keyframes, there is no automatic duplication of these.

All I am after is about 10 seconds of the walk cycle to AVI.  Would I need to duplicate all of these keyframes 10 times to achieve this?  I'm assuming there's a more clever way, but alas I don't know what it might be.

Thanks in advance for any help/pointers. 🙂

[Anonymous]

Just as an update... I've exported from Playblast as images, and then found that you can import an image sequenc into Photoshop.  I did this, duplicated the layer 15 times, and then rendered it out as a video which I could, finally, then import into my video editing software to add text/fades etc..

Phew.. many steps...

I would still be very interested to know if there's a way within Maya to just say "Playblast this, for 20 seconds".. 🙂

[mspeer]

Hi!

Here it works, took just a few seconds to set up the scene with keyframes and 1 and 5 and playblast 150 frames with infinity.

Please upload your scene-file.