Custom frame rate unit

[jon parker]

Hello list,

I'm working on a project now that may end up being 90 fps. The time unit options in Maya's preferences do not include this rate... is it possible to define a new frame rate somewhere?

Cheers,

Jon

[David Johnson]

In prefs, in the timeSlider section, playback tab, you can choose Playback Speed "Other" then set "Other Speed" to 90.0 for 90 fps

David

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[jon parker]

Hi David,

That will adjust the playback speed but not change the total number of frames, such as going from 30 to 60 fps in the settings section will do.

Cheers,

Jon

[Steve Davy]

Maybe not the answer you're looking for, but you could work at 30fps, then render on threes. Assuming this isn't a real time project.

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[David Johnson]

Just grab all the curves and scale them in time by 90/24 with pivot at 0.

David

[jon parker]

Yeah, that's always an option... the nice thing about just changing the
units is that you can reference an animation scene that was done at
a different rate from the current scene and Maya will do the conversion
automatically.

Jon

[Stephen]

Hey Jon. For some reason current time units are hard coded to specifics. So there is 80 and 100 but no 90 ( and I'm assuming this is why you can set it to "film" or "24" from the currentUnit command )

You could try setting the time warp on the time1 node itself.
Under key. Scene time warp.

Generally I avoid timeWarps but this may get you what you want .

Just be sure to set the timewarp curve to spline or linear as for some reason it comes in as auto and flat

Hth

-=s

[jon parker]

After some tests we decided 90fps doesn't look any different from
60fps anyways, so I'm off the hook for now.

But that is a strange, short-sighted choice made by Alias way back
when. Imagine if you could only render a fixed choice of image
resolutions: 640x480, 1024x768, 1920x1080 or 10000x10000!

-Jon