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Re: Save a sequence of images as a QuickTime file?

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• Subject: [mg10370] Re: [mg10344] Save a sequence of images as a QuickTime file?
• From: Richard Gass <gass@physics.uc.edu>
• Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 04:10:03 -0500

>I am having trouble saving a sequence of images as a QuickTime file with
>Mathematica 3.0 on a Macintosh.  I have created a sequence of grouped
>images with a command like:
>
>Table[Show[Graphics[images[[i]]]],{i,nimages}];
>
>They animate nicely by selecting the group & doing the front end menu
>item "Animate Seected Graphics" under the Cell menu.
>
>Now I would like to save the sequence as a QuickTime file.  So I select
>the group & do the front end menu item "Save Selection As... QuickTime"
>under the Edit menu.  When it is over I get a QuickTime file, but it
>only has the first frame in it.
>
>Am I doing something wrong?  How do I get the whole sequence into one
>QuickTime file (besides saving each frame separately & joining them
>outside Mathematica with a QuickTime editor)?  Is this the way it is
>supposed to work?  Is there a bug?
>
>Thanks for the help!
>
>......................................................... Jim Jennings
>Research Associate              jenningsj@mail.utexas.edu Bureau of
>Economic Geology      (512) 471-4364 (voice) University of Texas at
>Austin   (512) 471-0140 (fax)
>.........................................................
It's a bug in 3.0. This is fixed in 3.01.

Richard Gass
Department of Physics
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221
phone- 513-556-0519
E-Mail gass@physunc.uc.edu