[Paraview] How do I save an animation from a python script?

[Eric E. Monson]

Hey John,

Have you seen this section of the Python scripting documentation?

http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting#Animating

-Eric

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Eric E Monson
Duke Visualization Technology Group


On Nov 4, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Milos Ilak wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> I don't know how one could save an entire animation from Python, but I use WriteImage() for each frame to output a .png, and I end up with a bunch of numbered images (I manually write the file names in a loop). That gives you more flexibility in encoding, as you can change the frame rate, bitrate, use more codecs, etc...Of course, if you do this, you need to use some encoding software such as ffmpeg, mencoder, QuickTime Pro, etc in order to encode the movie. I hope this helps,
> 
> Milos
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> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:09 PM, John Haiducek <jhaiduce at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to save an animation from a python script using pvbatch or pvpython. Is there a python command for saving an image sequence, or do I need to repeatedly change frames and call WriteImage() each time?
> 
> John Haiducek
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