[Paraview] Saving movie offscreen

[David Neckels]

Hi,

Hopefully this question is not too basic, but here goes:

I have a sequence of huge mesh files (400000+) degrees of freedom, 10000 
elements and would like to render a movie using paraview.
I have saved the files as euler_out_{timestep}.vtk, and can render the 
animation, it just takes a long time.

Unfortunately, the only way I know how to make a movie is to have 
paraview render each image to my computer screen--if a window goes in 
front of the image, it ruins the movie.  I would like to be able to 
start an animation, leave for the evening, and come back to a movie.
Or work on other things while the movie is being made in the background.

I guess one way is to figure out how to disable my screen saver, etc.. 
and render over night, but I was wondering if it is possible to have 
paraview render completely offline/offscreen (perhaps even on a 
different computer)...

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
-David N.