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Re: Re: How to save/export a Manipulate[...] run to a movie

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  • Subject: [mg78519] Re: [mg78385] Re: How to save/export a Manipulate[...] run to a movie
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 05:38:30 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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That way doesn't work for me.  I get a large (~ 130MB) .avi file, but 
when I view it I see only a single frame for the entire time.

dh wrote:
> Hi Nasser,
> 
> a crude way to doit is to save the created graphics and finally store 
> 
> them e.g. in AVI format. However, mathematica is awfully fast and 
> 
> creates a lot of pictures. Therefore, it is best to put a Pause 
> 
> statement in to slow it down. Here is ane xample:
> 
> tmp={};
> 
> Manipulate[(AppendTo[tmp,t=Plot[Sin[x^a],{x,.1,1}]];Pause[0.1];t),{a,-1,1}]
> 
> Export["d:/tmp/t.avi",tmp]
> 
> hope this helps, Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Nasser Abbasi wrote:
> 
>> Hello;
> 
> 
>> I have a small notebook which does a Manipulate[....], where I 'run'
> 
>> it for some simulation time, and I need to save this run to a movie
> 
>> file (format not important, quick time or avi etc....) so I can send
> 
>> it to someone.
> 
> 
>> Is there a way to do this from within Mathematica other than doing a
> 
>> recording screen capture of the window itself in which this command is
> 
>> running in?
> 
> 
>> I know of course I could save this as a Mathematica .nbp file and have
> 
>> someone run it inside Mathematica player.  But I think it is simpler
> 
>> if one can save an example run to a movie file first.
> 
> 
>> Any idea if this is possible to do from inside Mathematica? I looked
> 
>> at the  documentation, and I can't see any example of how to do this.
> 
> 
>> thanks,
> 
>> Nasser
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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