What facilities are there for making movies?
[FAQ under construction]The Image Magick convert tool can merge separate images into a variety of animation formats, and split them out again into single images, again in a wide choice of formats.Most of our platforms have mencoder, which outputs at least the MPEG-4 format.SGI IRIX systems have makemovie, which can convert input files in many different formats to SGI and QuickTime movie formats.The Maple animate() function can create animations that can be played in Maple, and output as multi-image GIF files.The Matlab avifile entry in its help system describes how to create movies, and its movie() function can play memory-resident movie data. Other tools described in the Matlab help system can import and export AVI files, and convert between AVI and Matlab’s own MOV format.
[FAQ under construction] The Image Magick convert tool can merge separate images into a variety of animation formats, and split them out again into single images, again in a wide choice of formats. Most of our platforms have mencoder, which outputs at least the MPEG-4 format. SGI IRIX systems have makemovie, which can convert input files in many different formats to SGI and QuickTime movie formats. The Maple animate() function can create animations that can be played in Maple, and output as multi-image GIF files. The Matlab avifile entry in its help system describes how to create movies, and its movie() function can play memory-resident movie data. Other tools described in the Matlab help system can import and export AVI files, and convert between AVI and Matlab’s own MOV format.
