Any advice on 3D animation?

[Mazin]

Originally Posted by Sunshift

Finishing early is for noobs!
actually, our first year it was 4:30, we had finished it into AVI, but it needed to be MOV. F***! several hours searching the internet for a avi to mov converter, then just broke down and bought Quicktime Pro.

oh rofl, you coulda just recoded your project with 3ds max and saved the $X it took for QT Pro.

Go into 3ds max > Rendering > Video Post, add your avi as an input event, and pick QuickTime as an output event. Win.

Or, if you are good with computers, you coulda just (re-)encoded it with mencoder (actually you can encode anything with mencoder).