Rotation Movie
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Dialog Box - Rotation Movie [Rotation Menu]

This will write a movie or video file in .AVI (Windows), .MOV (Macintosh) or .SWF - Flash (all platforms) format. These files consist of a series of bitmap (raster) images. The structure will be rotated from its current attitude about the selected Axis , with the selected Rotation increment, until the sum of rotations exceeds the Maximum rotation.

A normal motion picture uses 30 Frames per second , but typical computer videos use less than this. In fact, some computers may not be able to handle 30 frames/sec for large images.

For .SWF - Flash files (only) you can add a sound track from a .mp3 file.

Note that movie files may be very large (many megabytes) even if compressed. For Macintosh, the compression mode is automatically selected by the System software, and is supposedly optimal for the resolution (Pixel size ) selected. In Windows, you are presented with a dialog showing the available codecs (COmpression-DECompression algorithms), and you must select one. Finding the optimal codec may be a matter of trial and error - performance usually varies with the Pixel size and the actual number of colors used. Some codecs compress very effectively, but cause degradation of the image - SHAPE images should usually be compressed with a lossless compression method. Some codecs which have been found to be good for typical SHAPE images are the CorePNG and Lagarath codecs.

See Frames for details of the frame and frame units.