[vtkusers] offline animations

[Charl P. Botha]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 15:59, Matthijs Sypkens Smit wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 December 2003 13:21, Luke J West wrote:
> 
> > I want to make an mpeg or animated gif (or other format - whatever)
> > from a series of scenes generated when I invoke the Render() method.
> >
> > How might I do this in a LINUX/UNIX environment?
> 
> I have personally used the ImageWriter (PNG, JPEG, etc.) classes to output 
> individual frames to the hard drive together with the mjpegtools ( 
> http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/ ) to combine the frames into movies. I don't 
> know if there is a better or easier way than that, but it works reasonably 
> well.

You could also try my FLTK/ImageMagick/avifile-based im2avi
application.  It can create AVIs with many different codecs.  I usually
use MS-MPEG4 as this is supported by default on most Windows and
Linux/mplayer installations and is thus ideal for presentations.

See http://visualization.tudelft.nl/publications/botha2003/ for some
example movies made with im2avi and a screen capture tool called
xvidcap.

-- 
charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/