Huygens Movie Maker

Introduction

The Movie Maker, present in the Huygens Software since version 3.4 (to be released in the first quarter of 2009), is a tool that allows you to easily create sophisticated animations of your multi-channel 3D images using the powerful Huygens Visualization renderers. The AVI movies can be played by:

• Windows Media Player;
• Apple QuickTime?;
• VLC;
• MPlayer;
• Any other MJPEG enabled player...

Animations from the Fast Mip renderer, the Surface Renderer , or the Sfp Renderer can be combined in a single movie.

The tool assists you in creating the key frames that define the main scenes, and the smooth transtitions between them. Interactive manipulation of the scenes is possible using the renderers interfaces or the timeline plot with the variable parameters.

The movies can be exported to AVI files or to separate TIFF images for you to combine them with other software. Movie projects can be saved for later editing or to use them with different 3D datasets.

A 'first time tutorial' can be found in the Help menu (top right). This interactive tutorial guides you step by step through the process of making a simple movie.

More information on the Movie Maker can be found in the Movie Maker Tutorial

Combined renderers animation of an isolated Rat Hepatocyte couplet recorded by Dr. Permsin Marbet at the Department of Anatomy, University of Basel, Switzerland, in the lab of Prof. Lukas Landmann.

Animated surface rendering of an isolated Rat Hepatocyte couplet recorded by Dr. Permsin Marbet at the Department of Anatomy, University of Basel, Switzerland, in the lab of Prof. Lukas Landmann.

Animated surface rendering, generated by the SVI Huygens Movie Maker.

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