Mathematica 3.0 and QuickTime
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- Subject: [mg14578] Mathematica 3.0 and QuickTime
- From: Wagner Truppel <wtruppel at uci.edu>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 03:07:46 -0500
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
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. Here's the sequence of events: 1. I select all graphic cells belonging to the animation 2. Choose Save Selection As... QuickTime 3. The QuickTime compression options dialog box appears and I make my choices, then hit OK 4. The save-file dialog box appears, I type the file name, then hit the Save button So far, this is how it should be. But... 5. The save-file dialog box appears *again*, right away 6. Okay, that's odd, but I type the file name I want once again, then hit Save 7. Mathematica returns to the FrontEnd very quickly, regardless of how large the animation is 8. A movie file is created, with a single frame in it, the first frame of the animation What gives?? Needless to say, I have the proper QT software installed. 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