Hi, I just happened to be able to answer your question :) What you need is mpeg_encoder. You can find Berkeley mpeg_encoder very useful in this aspect. You can then save continuously in miff format or others. Then convert should do the rest. I don't know much of convert, but it seems the whole conversion process takes a lot of memory. Hope this helps.
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > Hi, > > How can I generate a movie file from the OpenDX animation frames? > > I have a VPE network that produces the animation: the Sequencer runs over all > frames and the Image tool outputs tiff files, numbered according to the > Sequencer > frame number. This results in a collection of files, say image001.tiff up to > image100.tiff. Each file is typically one or two Mb. > > I tried to use ImageMagick's convert as "convert -delay 20 *tiff > myMovie.mpeg", > but this coredumps (with ImageMagick version 5.5.1.4). > > So I'm lost how to proceed. Among many questions, these are most urgent: > > 1) Is there a native tool in OpenDX to generate such a movie file immediately? > > 2) If not, what (external) software can you recommend to convert OpenDX output > into a movie file? > > Thanks so much for your help! > > Regards, > Rob. > > -- Guanglei Cui Dept. of Chemistry SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11790
