I am trying to convert some visual program animations to mpeg (or any other movie format). I have had some success with using the Continuous Saving option of the Save Image command to save my files as ImageMagick .miff files, then using ImageMagick's convert command to convert .miff to .mpeg. This procedure fails for large movies (say, 200 frames or more) because convert seems to be loading the entire movie into memory before converting. My 1 GB machine runs out of memory quite quickly in this scenario.
Does anyone have a suggestion for creating large movies that does not require gigabytes of RAM? Thanks, Jim Amundson
