Export Maya Animation to other format

[Shahnawaz]

Hello everyone, I am a beginner. I have completed making the "Apple" animation, by following Maya tutorial in F1 help. Can anyone please let me know how can I export this animation to other formats so that I can view my animation Real Audio Player, Window Mediaplayer or Flashplayer?

[Controller]

Hi,
So, what you need to do is render your sequence. Im going to try step by step most simple way

First I hope you have your animation into a project created already, if not go to "File -> Project -> New" in there just name your file (ie AnimApple), hit "Use Defaults" and Accept
Than you save the file, it should be on the right folder structure already since you created the project (\maya\projects\AnimAppe\scenes) and there you save your file AppleAnim.ma
Ok, now into rendering part, open render globals at Window-> Rendering-> Render Settings and fill as follows:
File name prefix: %s/%s
Image format: its a personal preference, normally i go .tga's
Frame/Animation ext: name.#.ext (name.number.extension)
Frame padding: 4 (so it starts 0001.tga, and not 1.tga)
Frame Range: just set the Start and End frames of your animation
Renderable Cameras: perspec (if you didnt create a new camera and have the framing in normal perspective camera. if you have a specific camera already created choose it there)

Ok, now into rendering. Go to render tab . At the top left under "File" menu you see a "Polygon" probably (Or surfaces, animation, rendering, dynamics, ndynamics..), so change it to Rendering, and at Render tab chose Batch Render. Now you computer will render the frames of your animation you set at the Render Settings. So you wait...

The tga image seq rendered will go to "images" folder created when you created a new project. You can open it in quick time and if you have the pro version you can already export to the movie extension you want .mov, .avi, mp4... if not you will need a program like After Effects to create the movie file.
You can also under image format chose .avi already, but if any problem happens you have to re render everything again from 0. So normally i go with img sequences.

I hope that helps, try to go a step at a time and you shouldnt get lost.

[moshun111]

The .act files I have contain Models, textures and Model animations. I would like to know what I can use to open these files in Maya or any other 3d software.