TUFLOW Viewer - Exporting An Animation: Difference between revisions

* TUFLOW Viewer will take care of all the interaction with ffmpeg and the user is not required to learn how to use ffmpeg

<li> Open the export animation tool via '''Export >> Export Animation'''<br>

<li> Set the '''General''' settings<br>

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<li> '''Start Time''' - The output time to start on

<li> Use '''Custom Layout''' using the template file

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<li> Assuming the above workflow, the '''Default Layout''' lets the user specify some items to add to the layout. Starting with the first three, each of these has the ability to add an additional label to the item and set properties such as the font, background colour, background border, and position in the layout (all of these properties can be changed later in the print layout):

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<li> '''Legend''' - A legend item - can be added / modified later in the print layout<br>

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<li> The next layout item is '''Plots'''. These are dynamic plot objects that will be added to the animation. To add a plot, the plot must already be available in one of the TUFLOW Viewer plotting windows<br>

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<li> Use the add button [[File: Animation_add_button.PNG | 20px]] to add a plot

<li> Set the plot properties. When the user clicks this button, TUFLOW Viewer will calculate the min/max for the plot axes. For lines on the cross-section and vertical profile plots, this can take some time as TUFLOW Viewer will need to step through every timestep to find the min/max values.<br>

: ''<b>Note: since v3.3 cross-section plots will now longer trigger an automatic min/max calculation</b>''

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<li> '''Plot Title''' - can be useful to indicate where the plot was extracted from by aligning the title with labels in the print layout