[Paraview] Save Animation option in ParaView 5.4.0 vs 5.3.0

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Great! Thanks for confirming.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Van Moer, Mark W <mvanmoer at illinois.edu> wrote:
> Hi Utkarsh,
>
> I missed this and just saw your GitLab comment. To answer your first question, I was on Linux, saving as PNG. But, you're correct, my issue was that ffmpeg accepts two -r flags, one for the input and one for the output and what I needed to do was set -r 1  and -r 30, respectively.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 8:14 PM
> To: Van Moer, Mark W <mvanmoer at illinois.edu>
> Cc: ParaView <paraview at paraview.org>
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Save Animation option in ParaView 5.4.0 vs 5.3.0
>
> Mark,
>
> As  I was re-reading your email while working on issue #1792 [1] which affects the save animation dialog, I have a few questions: Are you saving the movie as AVI (and on what platform). If so doesn't changing "Frame Rate" have the same effect for avi? If you set your frame rate to 1 frame/second, doesn't that yeild exactly what you're looking for
> -- each frame stays on for 1s with discrete jumps and no interpolation? Atleast on linux/mac where the FFMPEG writer is used, I can see that the frame rate of 1 fps works as expected. What am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Utkarsh
>
>
> [1] https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17952
>
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Van Moer, Mark W <mvanmoer at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> I forgot to mention that I can write out the number of frames I want
>> if I use Sequence instead of Snap to TimeSteps, however, then an
>> Annotate Time source will show an interpolated time based on the
>> sequence rather than the actual timesteps. If there’s a work around
>> for that behavior I could do that instead.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Van Moer, Mark W
>> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2018 9:18 AM
>> To: ParaView <paraview at paraview.org>
>> Subject: Save Animation option in ParaView 5.4.0 vs 5.3.0
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> In ParaView 5.3.0 and earlier, when Animation mode was Snap to
>> TimeSteps, in the Save Animation dialog box there was an option for
>> No. of Frames / timestep. This doesn’t show up in the 5.4.0 dialog
>> box. Was this just moved or was it removed completely?
>>
>>
>>
>> My use case for this is a data set with 25 timesteps, each of which is
>> on the order of either 5 minutes or 30 minutes apart in real world
>> time. I’d render 30 frames / timestep to get a 25 second movie to show
>> each discrete timestep for one second. The video should show those
>> discrete jumps in time and not use interpolation.
>>
>>
>>
>> I can do the frame replication in BASH but it was handy to have that option.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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