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Exporting frames for a movie...

Posted by John Szakmeister on Mar 16, 2009

I've tried searching through the site here, and only came up with several answers... none of which worked for me.

I'm trying to create an animation of a graph algorithm being computed at various steps (highlighting current optimal paths, and current path being looked at). However, I'm running into the export issue with QuickTime and it sucking down all the memory in my system. I saw a question about "exporting as .gif", and figured I'd give something like that a try... only graphicsView never seems to be visible in _ctx. I've got QuickTime pro, and I can recompose individual frames into a movie... but I can't export them by hand since there are over 10,000 individual steps. :-(

Any ideas from the NodeBox gurus?

Thanks!


 
Posted by nzo on Mar 26, 2009

I've the same problem. I've create a script to export anim to quicktime. I've 4 Go on my hardware. I can only export 1500 frames. All memory down. Is there anything to free memory on each creating frame ?



Posted by lievn on May 07, 2009

did you try exporting from the script itself?

canvas.save(str(FRAME)+".jpg")
canvas.clear()