Re: Mathematica generating gifs for avi problem
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg29778] Re: [mg29713] Mathematica generating gifs for avi problem
- From: gleam at flashmail.com
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 20:35:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Alan, there is a much easier way! Export the animation as a TIFF file, and
then open it in an animation package that can read the multi-frame TIFF
data. I use JASC Animation Shop 3, which comes with Paint Shop Pro
7. This program can read TIFF, and export AVI. Here is a simple example:
Short[ani1 =
Table[Plot3D[Sin[x y + z], {x, 0, 3}, {y, 0, 4}, Axes -> False,
PlotRange -> {-1, 1}, DisplayFunction -> Identity, PlotPoints -> 50,
Mesh -> False], {z, 1, 7, 1/3}]]
Export["animation.tif", ani1, "TIFF", ImageSize -> {500, Automatic}]
Paul
>i'm trying to generate an avi movie for powerpoint. since Mathematica for
>windows doesn't support this directly, i'm exporting individual .gifs
>with Mathematica's Export[], then using shareware to convert to avi.
>
>problem is, i have 1000's of frames and it's taking a long time to
>render each one. shouldn't it be possible to direct Mathematica not to render
>and rather to save these plots? i'm using Export[,"GIF"] and i tried
>DisplayFunction->Identity but doesn't work. any runarounds?
>
>alan calvitti
>axc at eecs.cwru.edu