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why is Export[] SO slow?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg29881] why is Export[] SO slow?
• From: Paul Cally <Paul.Cally at sci.monash.edu.au>
• Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 01:00:28 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Monash Uni
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I have been making animations, using ShowAnimation, and then
exporting these to a gif movie

Export["file.gif",animation]

Typically I might have around 130 frames. This all works,
but it is SO slow, maybe taking a couple of hours to export!!
The final movie is only 176 kb, so each frame is pretty small.
Is there a better way to do this?

I was running on a 600MHz pentium under linux.

Paul Cally


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