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batch-exporting .gif graphics area video

Hi,

I want to create hundreds of videos of a modal analysis for different subcases / simulations / views.. I can create those .mvw files easily, so that on each page, I have the animation I want. But in the MVP-Toolbar, all I can do is export 1 screenshot of each page or create an animation of just one page, but I want to create all those videos automatically. Is there a way how to batch-export those .gif, something like

set d 0

foreach page $pages {

*changePage $page

*gifExport C:/data/frame$d.gif

incr d

}

Thanks,

Michael

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Hi Micheal,

I have to capture a large number of *.gif images out of my modal solution files.I want to automate the same.

Can you suggest something for this?

Thanks in advance.

regards

Ramkrishna Shekhar

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I used a python script to create a mvw-session file with one animation / page, and I think I found something that can export the images:

hwi GetSessionHandle mySessionName

mySessionName GetProjectHandle proj

set numberOfPages [proj GetNumberOfPages]

for {set i 1} {$i < $numberOfPages +1} {incr i} {

proj SetActivePage $i

mySessionName CaptureAnimation gif 'c:/temp/$i.gif'

}

I don't know if that is the best solution, but it's working quite nicely for now. Would be better if everything is in tcl, but well.. I don't like tcl..

Altair Forum User

Micheal, this worked!

Thank you for your Reply.

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