Smokeview Making Movies

A movie may be made of a Smokeview animation by creating a sequence of still images, one image for each time step and then combining these images into a movie file. A dialog box (Dialogs>Files>Make Moview) for creating movies is activated if Smokeview finds the public domain program ffmpeg. Versions of this program for Windows, Linux and Mac platforms may be downloaded from https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html. The program ffmplay may also be downloaded which is used as the name suggests to play the movies you create.

ffmpeg generates movies in avi, mp4 and wmv formats. You may also select the frame rate and bit rate to control the quality and size of the generated movie.