Create an Animation of Existing Raster Images

RockWorks | Graphics | Animate | Images -> Animation

Use this program to read a series of existing PNG raster images from the project's Animation_Frames folder and create a video of the image sequence in numeric order. The animation may be saved to a variety of video formats.

! This program assumes you have a sequence of PNG images with a constant prefix (such as "Pic_"), followed by a 5-digit number (such as "00001" and "00002"), followed by the ".png" file name extension, all stored in the Animation_Frames sub-folder of your RockWorks project folder. This image sequence and setup is generated by RockWorks automatically when you run most of the programs in the Animation menu: it creates the image frames from the data source, then generates the animation from those frames. This Images -> Animation program is designed to permit you to generate a video from images which already exist.

! If there is a break in the numeric sequence (e.g. "Pic_00012.png" to "Pic_00014.png") then the rendering will stop at the last image in the contiguous sequence.

See also
     View a Slide Show

Feature Level: RockWorks Basic and higher

Menu Options
Step-by-Step Summary

Menu Options

• Image Prefix: Enter into this prompt, on the right side of the program window, the beginning of the name ("prefix") of all of the existing image frames which are to be output to video. These images must reside in the "Animation_Frames" sub-folder of your current RockWorks project folder.

  For example, if you were to enter "contour_" as the prefix here, then the files highlighted in the list below would be included, in order, in the output video.

  

• Display Animation: Check this box, on the right side of the window, to have the video displayed after it is generated. It will use the default player for that type of file which is installed on your computer.
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• Frames per Second: This setting determines how fast the animation should be. The default is 10 frames per second. Increase this value to make the process go faster (more frames per second), decrease this value to make it go more slowly.
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• Type of Output: Use these options to select the type of video to be output and, when requested, establish the video settings. (More info)
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Step-by-Step Summary

1. Be sure the image frames you want to output to video reside in the Animation_Frames sub-folder, inside your current RockWorks project folder, as described above.
2. Select the Graphics | Animate | Images -> Animation menu option.
3. Enter the requested program settings, described above.
4. Click the Continue button to proceed.

   RockWorks will load the existing PNG images from the Animation_Frames folder and output then in sequence to the requested animation type. The animation will be displayed in the default viewer as selected.

   
   

See also

• Adding this program to your Playlist
• Adding this program to your Favorites
• Save/load/view menu settings
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