[Paraview] making movies in ParaView

[Ivo Roghair]

If you did not build with FFMPEG, but if you have it installed, try the command

ffmpeg -qscale 3 -r 30 -b 40000 -i filename.%04d.png movie-output.avi

For mencoder, a similar command exists. Otherwise, you can try using
'avidemux', a graphical user interface where you can open the first of
the images, it will use all images to make a movie.

Finally, png's are usually much nicer for this type of graphics, since
they don't display artefacts.

Cheers
Ivo


2011/4/18 David Partyka <david.partyka at kitware.com>:
> Did you configure your ParaView build with FFMPEG? It uses that library to
> create avi files.
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:06 AM, wang <wang at knmi.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Hello ParaView users,
>>
>> I have a question over making movie in Paraview. Some time ago I could
>> make avi format movies in ParaView. But now it says "avi format is unknown".
>> Here is the error massage shown up:
>>
>> ERROR: In
>> /builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.0/Servers/ServerManager/vtkSMAnimationSceneImageWriter.cxx,
>> line 402
>>
>> pqAnimationSceneImageWriter (0xab40c38): Unknown extension .avi
>>
>>
>> What now it makes are many jpg files. I don't know how to make a movie
>> form these files. Does anyone know?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Xueli
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