Overview of making movies

Spiegel is capable of creating movies where one or more cameras can be positioned around a 3D visualization, and the cameras can move over time along predefined paths. The starting point for making movies should be the MovieGlossary, which explains some of the terms used in the rest of the documentation. The steps for making a movie are as follows:

1. Create visualization program
   • See GraphicalProgramming
2. Create camera flythrough path
   • See CreatingASimpleMovie and MoviePathEditor for the visual interface
   • See MovieEditor for the non-visual, but more precise interface
3. Connect flythrough to visualization
   • See RenderingMovies
   • For multi-camera movies, see DisplayingCameraPath
4. Render frame-by-frame images
   • See RenderingMovies
5. Combine frame images into a movie file
   • See GeneratingMovies for the graphical interface
   • See MovieMakerCommandLine for the textual interface

-- TimPeterson - 13 Jun 2006