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Common Tasks

Save a Movie/Animation

Quick and dirty approach:

1. get things to look the way you want onscreen
2. "File -> Save Animation", accept the defaults, and hit "Save Animation"
3. for File Name, enter the base portion of a frame name "frame", for example.
4. set the type to .png (<-- This is important; other formats will burn disk space or butcher your image quality.)
5. Hit OK.
6. Encode your frames into a movie (using the encode.py script for a plays-on-linux-only x264 movie, or quicktime H.264 for a portable movie) High Quality Movie Encoding

High quality approach:

1. read up on Generating High Quality Movie Frames
2. read up on High Quality Movie EncodingPlease see the full writeup here: How to Make Movies with ParaView

1. Setup
   1. Load your data (mesh, fields and/or particles), and get them to look the way you want
   2. preview your animation using the VCR style controls in the VCR Toolbar ("View -> Toolbars -> VCR Controls" if not already visible)
   3. For your images, figure out your desired resolution and aspect ratio (aspect = pixel_width/pixel_height).
      1. Here is some information on Choosing Frame Resolution. Please read and understand that before proceeding.
      2. It may help to lock your view to that ratio ("Tools -> Lock View Size Custom...")
   4. It helps to see the Animation View ("View -> Animation View" if it's not already visible)

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