Record Animation

This command allows you to record an ascending or descending animation.

Creation stages / Use:

Click the icon or select Mounting > Record Animation... from the drop-down menu.

Select the animation to record.
Enter the start time. To start at the beginning of the simulation, enter 0s (default proposed value).
Enter the end time. The proposed time is the total time of the animation (value proposed by default).
Enter the slow motion value. 1 is normal speed; a higher value slows down simulation, a lower value accelerates it. Negative values are not allowed.
Select the view to save. This choice is useful only if the document is displayed in several views.
Increase or decrease the frame size in the graphic area by moving its vertex.
Move the frame in the graphic area by moving one side.
Validate by clicking on .

Available Options:

Enter the Width and Height of the video to save. These values are in pixels.
Enter the number of images per second. For videos, generally this value is between 25 and 30. If below, the video will be smaller, but jerky.
Enter the key-frame rate if needed.
Select one of the installed Codecs. The same codes are necessary on the station that will playback the video. If you use Uncompressed option, a video of a couple of secondes may take several hundreds of Mb on your hard disk.
Modify the quality of the video by moving the cursor (grayed out for some codecs). An increase in quality increases the size of the video.
Configure the codec (for advanced users). Refer to the documentation of the codec).
Select the render mode from the drop-down list. The render mode has a lot of influence on the calculation time and the generation of the video.
Select the Background of the video. The screen background can be displayed in the video, or a black background, or a white one.
Check Open Video to automatically open the video in the viewer defined in Windows after it has been created.
Validate.
Select a destination directory.

Several options improve video quality, but also increase size and calculation time. For example, a rendering with effects takes much longer to calculate because for 25 images/second, 25 times the effects must be calculated.
The most frequent video playback problem is the absence of the codec on the station trying to play the video.