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Description
Saves a list of graphics images as a image files and converts them to a movie with ffmpeg. If ffmpeg is not installed the image files are still saved but the movie is not generate.
Needs["Cellzilla2D`"];
For full functionality ffmpeg and the appropriate codecs installed.
Return Value
SaveFrames[pictures, pictureType, size]
SaveFrames[pictures, pictureType, size, MovieType]
SaveFrames[pictures, pictureType, size, MovieType,
Label]
pictures - list of graphics objects.
pictureType - picture file type such as ".JPG", ".TIF", ".EPS", etc.
size - frame size in pixels (width).
MovieType - movie file format. Default is ".AVI". Options depend upon Export options for your operating system.
Label - optional text label to be prepended to the file name. The default value is MovieData.
The frames will be placed in the folder
~/Simulations-yyyy-mm-dd/Label-yyyy-mm-dd-hhmmss/Frames/
and will be called Frame0001.type,Frame0002.type,... where type was the specified image file type, and "~" is the user's home directory.Additional simulations run on the same day will be placed in the same "Simulations" folder but a new subfolder labeled with the current time.
If the simulations folder does not exist it will be created automatically.
If Label is not specified
Options
Example
[ Download Example as Zipped Mathematica Notebook ]
[ See the movie generated by this example]
See also the Wuschel Notebook Example as html or zipped notebook
Implementation Notes
See Also