[Paraview] movie from CVS image

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Assuming that you are using Raw (binary reader) (vtkImageReader) for
reading the images, this is what you need to do to animate a sequence of
images. 
For sake of simplicity let's assume that we are trying to animate the 
images in "ParaView/Data/Data/headsq". Here are the steps I follow:

Load Data quarter.1 (ParaView will require you to select the type of
reader, I choose Raw (binary) Files Reader.

Next, click on Timesteps. It lists all the files in the directory
"ParaView/Data/Data/headsq". Add a couple of files.
Change File Dimensionality for the reader to 2.
Change Extent for the reader to 0 63 0 63 1 64.
Accept.

Then, go to the animation interface via   "View" | "Keyframe Animation".
In "Animation Settings", enable "Show all animatable properties".
The reader should now be visible in the "Animation Tracks" pane.
Expand the reader tree, and click on the track for "FilePrefix".

This will add two key frames, first on initialized to the start of the
timesteps we selected earlier and the last one to the end of them.

One can now animate over the files.

> If I View source, and depress timesteps, only the current image is 
> displayed in the right window. The left window contains 3 dots, but no 
> images to add. Browse also only returns a single image from the sequence.
> 
One reason, why the left window has not images to add is because the
images are in different directory (?).

Utkarsh.




On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 10:56 -0700, don fisher wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The no CVS version will not generate movies the way I desire. There 
> has been a lot of effort visible in the recent CVS downloads I have made.
> 
> Last week, when I entered the first in a sequence of frames, Paraview 
> jumped into move mode and all of the command buttons, including 
> File-Quit where grayed out.
> 
> This week the behavior with loading the first image is improved. But I 
> cannot locate the old animate bu filename sequence. The only thing 
> available is animate buy keyframe, and selecting the filename as the 
> animated property does not expose the rest of the sequence.
> 
> If I View source, and depress timesteps, only the current image is 
> displayed in the right window. The left window contains 3 dots, but no 
> images to add. Browse also only returns a single image from the sequence.
> 
> How does one generate a movie from a sequence of images. Is this 
> currently disabled in the CVS builds?
> 
> Thanks for your help
> don