Create a movie from rendered images

Use Render > Convert Frames to Movie to compile an .avi file or a .mov file from a series of frames that have already been rendered.

Images may be in any format Alias supports. Bitmaps are the ideal image file type. Other formats are converted to bitmaps before adding the frames to the video, which slows the process down.

To convert a series of rendered images to a single movie file

1. Choose Render > Convert Frames to Movie .
   Note:

   When choosing the tool the first time, it takes a few seconds to load all the codecs for AVI and Quicktime.

2. Set the type of the output movie file (AVI or QuickTime), the codec, the frames per second, and other options. (Some options, for example Quality, are only available for some codecs).
3. Click Go.

   The file browser opens and you are prompted to

   Choose the first frame.
   

4. Select a file in the browser to use as the starting frame. A series of files must be numbered sequentially; for example, image.tif.1, image.tif.2,image.tif.3,image.tif.4, and so on.
   Note:

   The image filename formats that are accepted are “filename.num.ext” or “filename.ext.num” or “filename.num”, where “num” is the sequence number and “ext” is the image format extension.

   After the frames are chosen, an external program creates the movie in either AVI or QuickTime format.

   Note:

   QuickTime format is only available if QuickTime has been installed. The software is available at http://www.quicktime.com.