[Paraview] Saving movie offscreen

[Berk Geveci]

Which version of paraview are you using? For a while, ParaView has
been using offscreen rendering to capture images, as long as your
OpenGL driver supports offscreen rendering. Which platform are you on?

-berk

On 12/14/07, David Neckels <dneckels at ucar.edu> wrote:
> 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.
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