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[IDV #YLI-186553]: comedy of errors saving a 77 frame movie capture

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  • Subject: [IDV #YLI-186553]: comedy of errors saving a 77 frame movie capture
  • Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:42:20 -0700
> Dear IDV developers,
> 
> I have just spent an hour trying to save a 77-frame View->Capture movie that 
> I built in a
> slightly paionstaking manner (zooming, looping, rotating, etc).
> 
> The preview looks good, but every available movie saving format fails in one 
> way or another!
> 
> * In .mov, the first half of the frames appear black the first time through,
> or appear as the 37th frame in subsequent viewings.
> 
> * in .gif, the later frames are all this
> [cid:4b2cd80e-0a1a-4b9e-85d5-d95c7f8fae24@amazon.rsmas.miami.edu]
> 

Brian,
    If each frame was created correctly, I suspect that there is some memory 
issue when creating the movie. Did you get any error message?
Yuan
> 
> * avi cannot be read by my Mac or any of its browsers
> 
> * clicking .kml opens Google Earth, but it is infinitely slow, and I don't 
> see how to use it.
> 
> *AniS doesn't work in any of my browsers (Java error although I am pretty up 
> to date with
> last month's Java updates)
> 
> But at least allows me to write the frames.
> (since this route to writing the Image FIles
> does not ever lead to files in that directory for some reason,
> even thought I Selected it so yes the folder exists and is spelled right).
> [cid:807d5562-ad5c-4e06-a2b2-f9bc6825aeef@amazon.rsmas.miami.edu]
> 
> 
> 
> * So now I have the frames, but  single digit numbers in the naming doesn't 
> put them in order
> with a *, since image7 comes with the frame70, rather than after frame6. Also
> ls -t doesnt seem to order them right, perhaps they were not created in order.
> 
> I need some numerical shell thing so I have to go off and study what 
> something goes in this:
> convert `ls -something *frame*jpg` mymovie.gif
> or I can go in manyally and change 1 to 01, 2 to 02, etc.
> 
> 
> All in all, a frustrating journey to an animation! Thought you'd like to know.
> Some of this may be system dependent, my machine not up to date, etc. etc.
> 
> Brian Mapes
> address@hidden or address@hidden
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: YLI-186553
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open