Making Movies from WF-3D

Method for Making Movies from WF-3D

Here is a method for creating movies from WF-3D.

Run WF3d with -movie on the command-line.
The WF3d snaps a picture of every frame. You may wish to reduce the display speed (Example: -speed 0.25), because capturing frames will slow down the displayer, and the movie may become jumpy.
The result of this step is a set of files called picture_00000.ppm to picture_00xxx.ppm, numbered sequentially.

Convert image frames to JPEG images.

	bash
	  for f in pic*.ppm ; do convert -quality 100 $f `basename $f ppm`jpg; done 
	exit

Run mencoder to collect frames into AVI movie. Here is an example of how to use mencoder with the files created from the step above.
```
	mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=24 -o movie.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=800  
	
```
This creates movie file movie.avi .
For more information, see documentation on memcoder, web-search, etc..
Play your movie:
mplayer movie.avi
Or, point your web-browser or file-browser at the file.