[yt-users] How do you make movies?

[Nathan Goldbaum]

Hi all,

I'm curious what sort of scripts, tools, and invocations thereof that people in the yt community use to stitch frames together into movies.

It seems like there are a number of solutions to do this.  It would be nice if we could gather some solutions for this process and put them in the documentation or on the website so that future users have a place to start when they're trying to make their first movies.

For what it's worth, here's a script I just wrote to process a bunch of slices and projections dumped by a timeseries script: http://paste.yt-project.org/show/2703/

I've had good results with ffmpeg, although it's a pain to install and has an inflexible command line syntax to tell it to stitch together frames for a movie so I would love to hear of other solutions that don't use ffmpeg.

Cheers,

Nathan