Setting up a scene animation to allow adjustments later on (Maya).

pr1970

Hey all

Ive started doing animation work for rendering and just wondering how people generally setup a scene for various cameras,lights,etc

For example my scene has 7 cameras and 1000frames, i've setup frae 0-200 camera 1 , then 201-300 camera 2,etc. Lights,materials and objects and all animating. 
Now say i want to add a few more seconds to camera 1, but also adjust the keyframes for everything to cover those extra seconds. I'm having to adjust everything in the scene and bump it along frames to accommodate.

Whats a better way of doing this? Any advice? 

Thanks

Eric Chadwick

I would make each shot a separate scene file, reference the meshes into it, then do the animation local in each camera file. Rather than having to slide keys around and manage a multi-shot setup all in one scene file. 

pr1970

Thanks, yeah was thinking the same after I posted. Have the lighting as a scene, then each mesh set and then just reference them in. Then can batch render the shots.