In many ways, making an animation is akin to filmmaking. The shooting ratio in filmmaking is the ratio between the total duration of its footage created for possible use in a project and that which appears in its final cut.
A film with a shooting ratio of 2:1 would have shot twice the amount of footage that was used in the film. In real terms this means that 120 minutes of footage would have been shot to produce a film of 60 minutes in length.
Shooting ratios can vary greatly between productions but a typical shooting ratio for a production using film stock will be between 6:1 and 10:1, whereas a similar production using video is likely to be much higher.
The suggested shooting (rendering) ratio for your animation is at least 2:1. For instance, if your final animation is 60 seconds long, the total duration of its rendered clips from Maya should be around 120 seconds.
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