When creating animations or sequences, rendering a video is obviously an important step in Autodesk Maya. This includes the process of creating a first frame, setting up your render settings and exporting your animation as a series of frames or as one file.
Making a Rendering Video In Maya
Set Up the Scene: Make sure that your animation is finalized for the scene in the right light. Adjust any materials or textures to the way they should appear and adjust camera angle.
Configure Render Settings: From the Render Settings window, select your render engine (Arnold, Maya Hardware) as shown.
In the Common tab, set the Frame Range. Use the method for referring to the first and last frames of your animation.
Select File Format for the output file If you are working with image sequences, select a process such as PNG or EXR. If your compound is being used to animated content that will be further composited, choose an image-sequence format (PNG sequence or TIFF sequence) rather than a non-linear codec for direct-to-video; and if you do want a video output directly from the export process itself, select either AVI (on PC) or MOV (on Mac).
Set Resolution and Quality: Change the Image Size to suit your Project (for example HD 1920×1080, 4K 3840×2160)
(If relevant) – In Arnold Renderer under both the sample cam and ramp up the levels to make the final render better. Greater samples reduces noise, but increases render times.
Render the Animation: Navigate to Render > Render Sequence and this will export each frame one by one.
Post-Processing: Once rendering is completed, assemble the frame image sequence into a video using software like Adobe Premiere or DaVinci Resolve. This means we have more control over compression and quality settings than if we were to render directly as a video file through Maya.
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