Make Movie¶

Overview¶

This dialog provides access to different settings for making video files.

Make Movie Dialog, Options->Crop

Full image: renders video of the whole dataset.
Shown area: renders video of the shown area only.
ROI: use selected ROI (the ROI may be defined using the ROI panel) as area for the video.

Make Movie Dialog, Options->Resize

Width: modify width of the video file (the width depends on aspect ratio of the voxels).
Height: modify height of the video file.
Resizing method: select one of possible resizing methods.

List of image resizing methods

nearest: nearest-neighbor interpolation; the output pixel is assigned the value of the pixel that the point falls within. No other pixels are considered.
bilinear: bilinear interpolation; the output pixel value is a weighted average of pixels in the nearest 2-by-2 neighborhood.
bicubic: bicubic interpolation; the output pixel value is a weighted average of pixels in the nearest 4-by-4 neighborhood.
lanczos2: lanczos-2 kernel.
lanczos3: lanczos-3 kernel.

Make Movie Dialog, Options

Scale bar

If the width of the video is too small the scale bar is not rendered.

Direction: (only for 5D datasets) select the direction for video generation: "Z-stack" or "Time" for a time series.
Split channels: generate a montage image where each panel shows only one color channel.
Cols: number of horizontal panels in the montage.
Rows: number of vertical panels in the montage.
Grayscale: render individual color channels in grayscale mode.
white Bg: render background in white color for the split channel mode and the scale bars.
Margin:: gap in pixels between panels in the montage.

Split channel example

Make Movie Dialog, Options->File format settings

Select one of the possible formats:

Archival: motion JPEG 2000 file with lossless compression.
Motion JPEG AVI: compressed AVI file using Motion JPEG codec.
Motion JPEG 2000: compressed Motion JPEG 2000 file.
MPEG-4: compressed MPEG-4 file with H.264 encoding (Windows 7 systems only).
Uncompressed AVI: uncompressed AVI file with RGB24 video.

Select additional parameters for video rendering:

Frame rate: rate of playback for the video in frames per second.
Quality: number from 0 through 100. Higher quality numbers result in higher video quality and larger file sizes. Only available for MPEG-4 or Motion JPEG AVI formats.
First frame number: the number of the first frame for the video.
Last frame number: the number of the last frame for the video.
back and forth: complement the video with the same video rendered in the reverse direction.