Re: Mathematica 3.0 and QuickTime
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- Subject: [mg14619] Re: Mathematica 3.0 and QuickTime
- From: "Nicolas B.E. Sawyer" <nbes at eee.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 13:46:49 -0500
- Organization: University of Nottingham
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Wagner Truppel wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm using Mathematica 3.0.0 on a PPC Mac running MacOS 8.1 and whenever > I try to save an animation as a QuickTime movie, something strange > consistently happens. > ... > After trying so many times with no success, I decided to try a different > approach: use Display[]. So, I used Display[] to save each frame as a > "PICT" file, then used a separate application to build the movie from > them. However, each of the PICT files created comes out empty! > > Again, this happens consistently. By the way, I do have the latest > version of PSrender. > > Finally, I settled for using Display[] to save each frame as a "GIF" > file, then I use a separate application to convert them to "PICT", > then to a QT movie. > > Anyone has had a similar experience or know if this is a known bug or > otherwise have any suggestions on how I can create the movies without > all this hassle? > > Thanks in advance. > Wagner I've just sent a reply to the message "Re: Use of the command Display, with ImageResolution" about problems I've had with Save Selection As ... and Display[]. A solution to my problems with Display[] was to allocate it more memory. -- Nicolas B.E. Sawyer Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD. Tel: +44 115 9515151 ext 12028 Fax: +44 115 9515616 E-mail: nbes at eee.nottingham.ac.uk