Save Movie Options

The Save Movie window saves the visible contents of an image window as an MPEG move in 24-bit, RGB color. You can choose to save the image with the overlay graphics (e.g, scale markers) merged into a single image, save the image without the overlay graphics, or save only the overlay graphics.

You can play the MPEG movie format on the QuickTime viewer, the Windows Media Player, or a variety of Linux movie players. You can also import movies into PowerPoint. Double clicking on an MEPG file in a file browser opens the PlayMPEG viewer, which you can use to vary the speed of the movie.

Open Save Movie by choosing File | Save As Movie from the Image window.

Use	To...
Window	Enter the window number of the image to save as a movie. Note You must enter a window number. You cannot enter a file name.
Movie File	Enter the path and filename for the movie.
Save Image	Save the image to the selected movie file.
Save Overlay	Save overlay graphics to the selected movie file.
Movie Format	Choose from Quicktime, AVI, or MPEG movie formats.
Animation Style	Choose Forward, Backward, or Forward and Back for movie animation.
Compression Quality	Move the slider to adjust image quality and file size. Moving the slider to the left produces better quality and bigger file sizes. Moving the slider to the right produces lower quality and smaller file sizes.
Frame Rate	Move the slider to adjust the playback speed of the movie.
Animate through Z Sections	Set the movie to loop through Z sections. You can turn this off only when the image contains time data.
Z:Start/End/Increment	Set the Z start frame, end frame, and frame increment.
Animate through Time	Set the movie to loop through time sections. (This is only active for images that contain time data.)
Time:Start/End Increment	Set the time start frame, end frame, and frame increment.
Done	Close the Save Movie dialog box.
Do It	Create and save the movie.
Interrupt	Cancel either the current data loading or movie generation.
Preview	Display the movie in the Image window before saving.

Save Movie Options

Window

Enter the window number of the image to save as a movie.

Note You must enter a window number. You cannot enter a file name.

Movie File

Enter the path and filename for the movie.

Save Image

Save the image to the selected movie file.

Save Overlay

Save overlay graphics to the selected movie file.

Movie Format

Choose from Quicktime, AVI, or MPEG movie formats.

Animation Style

Choose Forward, Backward, or Forward and Back for movie animation.

Compression Quality

Move the slider to adjust image quality and file size. Moving the slider to the left produces better quality and bigger file sizes. Moving the slider to the right produces lower quality and smaller file sizes.