A high-quality movie can be created using DX by
1) creating a miff file
2) breaking it into seperate frames that use a lossless
format (e.g., GIF)
3) using the MJPEG tools (mjpeg.sourceforge.net)
to create an MPEG2 file.
The JPEG format you tried can loose detail unless you force it to its
highest quality.
After step 2 all the files should be in one directory. Go to that directory
and use a command like this to make the movie:
cat * | ppmtoy4m | mpeg2enc --format 3 --video-bitrate 5000
--motion-search-radius 32 --no-constraints -o mymovie.mpg
I don't know how to do this directly from DX. And, even if I did, I might
not want to slow down my DX session with the MPEG encoding that occurs in
step 3.
Kent Eschenberg
Scientific Visualization Specialist
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
