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Maya 8.5 to After Effects!?!?!
Hey yall,
I’m basically trying to render from maya and retain the camera data for AE. I know you are supposed to use the .rla format but when i bring it into AE and go to animation>keyframe assistant>rpf camera import (as it says to do in the AE help) it tells me there is no camera data in the sequence. Is there a setting in maya render options that needs to be set? Is there and easier way to do this? Is there a way to render rpf files from maya?Thanks in advance for any help.
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i think there is a tutorial or article here if you search, but to get your camera from maya to afx you want to bake its animation, and then save it as a maya .ma file.
you can then import this in to after effects and it will have your camera in a new comp
who is that masked man…
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what do you mean by “bake the animation”?
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if your camera is animated, and then you need to go to the menu, i think its edit->keys>bake
that sets a keyframe on every frame
who is that masked man…
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ahhhh ok. that makes sense. thanks so much!
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heres a link to an OLD tut, but it should still work pretty much the same way
https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/delafuente_rene/maya_cam_imp/index.html
who is that masked man…
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I want to warn you that even if you Bake everything, there are still some discrepencies between Maya units and AE units. Someone wrote a plugin called MoCon that fixes this. Costs $20.
Never tried it, by the way, so do your research.
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