Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Maya 2022: Unable to Playblast using Quicktime and H.264

If you are someone who has used maya for a few years you may have noticed some changes to maya 2022 and maya 2020.  One of the changes I have come across when playblasting my dance animation to Kiss and Make Up, is that QuickTime is no longer an option in the playblasting options.  If you are newer, you would find the quick time option under format in the playblast settings and H.264 disappears from the encoding setting.  These settings are easy to get back but it does require installing QuickTime.  Quick note, I have found this issue on both PC and Mac computers.

To get the QuickTime option back is very simple.

For a PC:

  1. Start off with maya closed.  It needs to be closed because we need to install quicktime.  
  2. You need to visit the Download Quick Time page.  This download is on an apple support page and is only for PC.
  3. Push the big download button on this page and install quick time.  
  4. Open maya and check both your playblast settings format and your render settings
For a Mac:
  • You need to follow the same steps above but you need to visit Quicktime Downloads by Apple support.

Maya 2022 Playblast Settings with QuickTime and H.264

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