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Category: Animation

The following programs allow you to view a movie, create a movie or convert a movie from one format to another.

The MPEG format is popular for web documents because it uses less disk space than the other formats. The trade-off is a loss of quality. Moviemaker is a good tool to create a movie from individual frames. From here mediaconvert can be used to convert it to an MPEG or a Quicktime movie.

Amira

Description

Amira is an interactive visualization package with support for scripting and batch use. It includes tools for working with:

3D and 2D image data processing and segmentation
Chemistry visualization (AmiraMol extension)
Volume rendering
Surface reconstruction and simplification
Tetrahedral grid generation
Animation
General visualization and data exploration

To use Amira, type:

module load AMIRA

Amira is stared by typing:

amira

More Information

Amira tutorial - Introductory tutorial for Amira.
Amira Tools - A collection of scripts for creating animation and various other functions as well as examples of data, nets and miscellaneous scripts.
User's Guide - On line user guide from the vendor.
Version 3.0 Release Notes - Detailed list of modifications and new features.

Version: 3.1
Labs: Basic Sciences Computing Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory, Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
System(s): All SGI workstations in VWL, BSCL and SDVL, All Sun workstations in SDVL and VWL, bs1 in BSCL
Categories: Visualization, Animation, Data Analysis, Image Display, Image Processing, Isosurfaces, Vector Fields, Volume Rendering

Blender

Description

Blender is a complete and integrated suite for 3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-production.

Home Page

http://www.neogeo.nl

Tutorial

Found on http://www.neogeo.nl/stuff/index.html

Documentation

A postscript formatted manual is found in /usr/local/blender/blender_manual_1.03.ps

Setting Up Your Environment

You must initialize your environment including default paths and environmental variables which the package uses to access the programs and associated fils. To do this, enter the following command:
module add blender
If you access this package on a regular basis, you can add this line to your ~/.cshrc file so that your environment will be initialized for Blender every time you log in.
eg:
  ...
  # initialize and load modules

  if( -e /usr/local/share/modules/init/tcsh ) then
     unsetenv PATH MANPATH
     source /usr/local/share/modules/init/tcsh
     module load base
     module add blender 
  endif
  ...

Running Blender

Once you have setup your environment, use the following command to run Blender
blender

Version: v1.54
Labs: Basic Sciences Computing Lab
System(s): all SGI workstations
Categories: Animation, Visualization

DVD Studio Pro

Description

DVD Studio Pro is a full featured DVD editing package for producing movie DVD's. It features:

Motion or still menus
Interactive buttons and links
Up to 99 tracks, each with up to 8 different angles, chapter markers, and multiple stories
Multilanguage support allowing up to 32 subtitle streams per track
Slide shows
Up to 8 audio streams per track
Dolby Digital AC-3 format audio
Web links
16:9 format support

DVD Studio Pro works in conjuntion with Final Cut Pro (i.e. editing, transitions, effects, etc.) and the final results can be written to DVD media with Toast.

More Information

DVD Studio Pro web site

Version: DVD Studio Pro 1.5.1
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
System(s): Dual processor Macintosh G4 in SDVL (m2.msi.umn.edu)
Categories: Animation, Image Display

Final Cut Pro

Description

Final Cut Pro is a nonlinear editor that supports a large range of professional editing formats (DV, SD and HD). It provides a variety of high end features such as G4 realtime, OfflineRT, advanced color correction, the Voice Over tool and many 3D titles and effects.

Use this package for complex editing, titles and text sequences, special effects, compositing, image sequence capture and video output. Other features include:

Video Capture from HD, SD, DV and Analog video.
Editing and Sound
Effects, Titles and Compositing
Color Correction
Output compressed video for the web, DVD, or broadcast in DV, SD or HD format

More Information

Final Cut Pro web site.
Final Cut Pro FAQ.
Final Cut Pro Knowledge Base Articles

Version: Final Cut Pro 3.0.2
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
System(s): MacIntosh SDVL (m2.msi.umn.edu)
Categories: Animation, Image Processing

Gifmerge

Gifmerge will combine single gif images into a gif89a animation. These animations can be included in web documents. There is no man page. For more information type gifmerge. This information includes a pointer to a web page with examples of the use of gifmerge.

Version: 1.33
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Basic Sciences Computing Lab
System(s): all SGI workstations
Categories: Animation, Web

IMARIS

IMARIS offers a choice of functions designed to process multi-dimensional microscope images. All functions are cross-platform (e.g., Zeiss, Leica, Bio-Rad, Olympus). Shadows, transparencies, perspective projection, animation (movie loops) and stereo projections are available for visual cueing and for high quality presentation. IMARIS is the visualization package paired with the HUYGENS2 image restoration package.

The IMARIS software is installed on bi8 in the BSCL. To use IMARIS, type:

module load imaris
imaris3

Version: Imaris 3.0.6
Labs: Basic Sciences Computing Lab
System(s):BSCL on bi8
Categories: Image Processing, Animation, Data Analysis

IMSL

IMSL is no longer available on our systems.

ImageMagick

ImageMagick is a collection of programs to display, manipulate and convert images from one format to another. It can handle many different image formats, including PostScript, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PICT,and SGI's rgb. The following table briefly describes each ImageMagick program. For more information, see the man page for ImageMagick ( man imagemagick) or the man page for the specific program (e.g. man display).
To run ImageMagick you must load the imageproc module.
module load imageproc

Program Uses Include:

display Display an image, interactivel manipulplate colors and color map, reflect, rotate, resize, crop, annotate, convert format.
montage Create a tiling of several images.
convert Convert from one image format to another.
mogrify Transforms an image or sequence of images. Trahsformations include resizing, rotation, color reduction.
animate Display a sequence of images
import Capture all or part of the screen.
combine Combine two or more images
segment segments an image by analyzing the histograms of the color components and identifying units that are homogeneous with the fuzzy c-means technique.
identify Print out information about the image (Size, type, ...).

Version: 5.2.9
Labs: IBM SP, Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory, Basic Sciences Computing Lab
System(s): all SGI workstations
Categories: Image Display, Image Processing,Animation

MediaConvert

Use Mediaconvert to convert movies to and from Quicktime movies , MPEG movies and SGI's movie formats. Documentation is online through the insight library. Type insight to start, then double click on "Digital Media Tools Guide" for more information. Caution: Mediaconvert fails to convert movies into MPEG movies, if the dimensions of the original images are not multiples of 16.
To use mediaconvert, type mediaconvert.
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory
System(s): all SGI workstations
Categories: Image Processing, Animation

MovieConvert

Movieconvert converts a movie file into a group of separate images, and to convert movies from one format to another. Movieconvert will also crop or resize images, and convert from one image format to another. Documentation is online through the insight library. Type insight to start, then double click on "Digital Media Tools Guide" for more information.
To use movieconvert, type movieconvert.
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory
System(s): all SGI workstations
Categories: Image Processing, Animation

MovieMaker

Moviemaker is used to create movies from individual images. Moviemaker can read in a variety of image formats, including tiff and SGI's RGB format. For the most part, the movies are output in one of SGI's movie formats. From here, movieconvert and mediaconvert can be used to get a sequence of image files from the movie and to convert the movie to other formats, such as MPEG and Quicktime. Documentation is online through the insight library. Type insight to start, then double click on "Digital Media Tools Guide" for more information.
To use moviemaker, type moviemaker.
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory
System(s): all SGI workstations
Categories: Image Processing, Animation

MoviePlayer

MoviePlayer will playback movies. It can handle several formats, including SGI's movie file formats, MPEG-1 movie files, and some files stored in the QuickTime file format Documentation is online through the insight library. Type insight to start, then double click on "Digital Media Tools Guide" for more information.
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory
System(s): all SGI workstations
Categories: Image Display, Animation

Mpeg_play

The program mpeg_play plays movies. Using the "-dither color" option is recommend for better looking images. The user interface is easy to use, but if you want more information, a man page is available describing further options (man mpeg_play)
Version: 2.4
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory, Basic Sciences Computing Lab
System(s): all UNIX workstations
Categories: Animation, Image Display

Toast

Description
Toast is package for creating ("burning") writable CD's or DVD's in a variety of formats for Macintosh, PC or UNIX systems. DVD's may be written as either data or video DVD's. Toast is an excellent software package with with a wide variety of functions and contains extensive and well written documention on its own use as well as the plethora of media formats, theirs standards and extensions.
More Information
See Toast's online help.
Also see the vendor's web site: www.Roxio.com

Version: 5.1
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
System(s): Macintosh m1 & m2 in the SDVL
Categories: Animation, Miscellaneous

Volocity

Description
Volocity is an interactive volume visualization system for time-resolved biomedical image data.. It includes tools for:

Fast and highly interactive volume exploration in 3D and 4D.
Export and publication of 3D images and data in standard file formats.
Volume rendering
Object classification, measurement and tracking in all dimensions.
Measurements from multiple channels for channel comparison and colocalization.
High quality restoration of confocal and wide field microscope images.
Animation template creation for prototypes

How to run Volocity
Launch Volocity from the Start menu:
A registration dialog shows up on starting for the first time. Click 'Server address' and enter the license server information. Next, enter your Volocity login information. If you do not have a username and password, contact help@msi.umn.edu to get your Volocity login details.
Volocity access reservation
In order to avoid license conflicts, there is a reservation facility available online at http://www.msi.umn.edu/cgi-bin/res/index.html This holds good for accessing the license on any system.
More Information
User's Guide - On line user guide from the vendor.
Version Release Notes - Detailed list of modifications and new features.

Version: 3.0.1
Labs: Basic Sciences Computing Lab, Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Computational Genetics Laboratory
System(s): Mac workstations in SDVL, PCs bpc1, bpc2 in BSCL, SDVLAPP1, PCs in CGL (One concurrent license)
Categories: Visualization, Animation, Data Analysis, Image Display, Image Processing, Volume Rendering

Xanim

The program xanim displays animations on systems running X11. Xanim can display animations and images that no other package at the Supercomputing Institute can. Formats for xanim include GIF87a and GIF89a (both single and multiple images, DL animations, Amiga MovieSetter animagions, Utah Raster Toolkit's RLE anmimations, AVI animations, Quicktime animations, JFIF, MPEG and others. A man page is available (man xanim).
Version: 2.70.7
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory
System(s): all SGI workstations
Categories: Image Display, Animation

iDVD2

Description

iDVD2 is a simple DVD editing, authoring and production package. It features:

Handles all the complex encoding and formating for you
Provides background MPEG encoding
Now allows up to 90 minutes of video on each disc, or thousands of still images
Supports full motion menus and buttons
Allows you to use your own movies or images for menus, backgrounds, and buttons
Provides a one-window interface for authoring and one-click DVD recording
AppleScript support for automating DVD creation
Produces DVDs that can be played on:

Most standard set-top DVD players
Most computers with DVD Video drives

More Information

iDVD web site.

Version: iDVD 2.1
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
System(s): MacIntosh SDVL (m2.msi.umn.edu)
Categories: Animation

iMovie

Description

iMovie is a very simple nonlinear video editing system. It provide an extremely simple and straightforward method for digitizing content from video tape and for real time recording of video data onto video tape. I also provide tools for simple editing, transitions, test and title sequences. iMovie works only with video data in DV format, so for video in formats such as MPEG, QuickTime or AVI, it must be converted to DV. This can be done with iView Media Pro. iMovie can Export to QuickTime format.

More Information

iMovie web site.
Apple iMovie tutorial

Version: iMovie 2
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
System(s): Macintosh SDVL m1 & m2
Categories: Animation

iView Media Pro

Description

iView MediaPro is a media management and cataloguing application for Mac OS X. You can use iView to import images directly from a digital camera, view, calibrate, organize, annotate, or backup media files. iView creates web sites, slide show presentations and QuickTime movies with your images, animations and audio soundtracks.

Features:

Import more than 120 Mac OS, PC and Web media formats
Import and catalog images directly from digital cameras
Create and view media files in customized catalogs
Organize, classify and annotate media with indexable and searchable tags
Fast access to media from disks, CD-ROMs and other unmounted volumes
Automatically generate web pages; Customize web page templates
Convert and repurpose image, sound and movie files into a variety of formats
Instant playback of movies, QTVR, animations, sounds in any view
Print reports, contact sheets as well as full images
Watch slide shows with movies, sound, images; Select timing & transitions
Create QuickTime movie presentations
Store, backup and burn your files to CD-ROM and other removable disk
Integrate workflow with the most popular applications

More Information

Tour of iView Media Pro features
iView MediaPro feature details

Version: iView MediaPro 1.5.5
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
System(s): MacIntosh SDVL (m2.msi.umn.edu)
Categories: Animation, Image Display, Image Processing, Visualization, Miscellaneous

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Program	Uses Include:
display	Display an image, interactivel manipulplate colors and color map, reflect, rotate, resize, crop, annotate, convert format.
montage	Create a tiling of several images.
convert	Convert from one image format to another.
mogrify	Transforms an image or sequence of images. Trahsformations include resizing, rotation, color reduction.
animate	Display a sequence of images
import	Capture all or part of the screen.
combine	Combine two or more images
segment	segments an image by analyzing the histograms of the color components and identifying units that are homogeneous with the fuzzy c-means technique.
identify	Print out information about the image (Size, type, ...).