Operating Procedures: Recording Movies (Saving Multiple Images)
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User Manual
Revision A
Feb 2018
Movie Creator
This is a separate program that creates a single AVI movie file
from a sequence of TIF images. Click on the
Thermo Scientific
menu
/
Movie Creator
to activate the tabbed dialogs.
The following items are common for all tabs:
•
Databar Preview
– shows the databar created within the Databar
tab.
•
Status
– shows the progress of the movie creation process.
•
Create Movie
button – opens the
Movie Creator
dialog.
•
Stop
button – stops the movie creation process.
•
Close
button – closes the
Movie Creator
program.
File Tab
FIGURE 5-13:
Movie Creator dialog / File tab
•
Name Prefix
– click on the
…
button to browse the TIF files (with the desired sequence prefix) folder. It is not
necessary to choose the first file in a row.
•
Time Period
– click the [
ms
] radio button to select a custom timing for the movie playback.
One may experiment for instance: 200 ms/per image (good for most movies to speed it up) for 100 images
results in 20 second total movie duration.
•
Time Period
– click the
TIF Time
radio button to select a timing for the movie playback.
•
From
/
To
– enter the number of the starting / ending frame. This field is filled automatically with the first / last
frame available.
•
Save in
– enter the path where the AVI file should be saved. Click on the
…
button to browse it.
•
File Name
– enter the resulting AVI file name. This field is filled automatically with the first image file name.
