3Ds Max Animation Export Issue

ReD-SpideR

I've recently extended my animation timeline from the standard 100 frames, to a little over 240.

The animation rendering finishes the avi file, but doesn't complete the full timeline, even when I have "Active Time Segment"

Any thoughts?

spacefrog

There is a bug in the AVI writer module of Max when files grow beyond 1GB. They simply get truncated and all frames above that size are missing in the final output. It does'nt depend on the codec you choose. It's some issue with the AVI writing module itself: the file always sticks at a maximum size of 0.99GB, no matter how many frames you try to render into it .
So don't  export to AVI directly.
Besides this being a generally good advice, in the case of 3ds Max it's crucial if you are dealing with AVI files larger than 1GB.  If you insist on direct movie file output, simply use the quicktime output ( mov ), it does'nt suffer from that bug ...