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Make Movie

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Overview

Make Movie Dialog

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

Crop

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.

Resize

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.

Extras

Make Movie Dialog, Options->Extras

  • check to add a scale bar to the video file.
  • Direction: (only for 5D datasets), use it to select direction for video generation: "Z-stack" or "Time" for a time series.

Scale bar

Note! if the width of the video is too small the scale bar is not rendered.

Options

Make Movie Dialog, Options->Options

  • generate a montage image, where each panel has only one color channel.

  • The dimensions of the montage image can be specified using the Cols (number of horizontal panels) and Rows (number of vertical panels) edit boxes. In addition, it is possible to force rendering of individual color channels in the grayscale mode (the checkbox).

  • render background in white color for the split channel mode and the scale bars.

Split channel example

Split Channel Example

Format

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.

Settings

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. Lower quality numbers result in lower video quality and smaller file sizes. Only available for objects associated with the MPEG-4 or Motion JPEG AVI profile.
  • The first frame number: the number of the first frame for the video.
  • The last frame number: the number of the last frame for the video.
  • : complement the video with the same video rendered in the reverse direction.

Output filename

  • Output filename: name and location of the destination file.

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