ct2-make-movie - manual page for ct2-make-movie
ct2-make-movie [options] file.ct2
arguments...
Automates the creation of movies from a single ctioga2
command file.
Running ct2-make-movie plot.ct2 file1.dat file2.dat file3.dat
... runs ctioga2 repeatedly with the value of the variable
$(arg) taking the arguments given on the command-line, ie.
file1.dat, then file2.dat, and so on.
It is also possible to have ct2-make-movie generate its
arguments itself: ct2-make-movie plot.ct2 0..10:101 will have
$(arg) going from 0 to 10 through 101 steps.
In each case, the variable $(index) is set to the current
number of the frame being drawn, starting from 0. For instance, in the above
example, it would range from 0 to 100.
The PDF files produced by ctioga2 are converted by
ImageMagick's convert and fed to a ffmpeg encoding pipe.
- -t, --target
FILE
- Target video file. Defaults to the ctioga2 file name given, with
the suffix .ct2 replaced by .avi.
- --dir DIR
- Temporary directory for storage
- --version
- Prints the version of ct2-make-movie.
- -p,
--[no-]pdftoppm
- Using pdftoppm to rasterize the PDF file rather than convert
can lead to very significant speed improvements, depending on your version
of gs. Using this option enables the use of pdftoppm.
convert remains necessary for the processing, though.
- --page-size
SIZE
- All page-size instructions in the ctioga2 command file are
ignored. Using this option allow you to set the target page size (in TeX
dimensions).
- --resolution
RES
- Set target resolution (overridden to some extent by page-size)
- --[no-]store
- When on (by default), ct2-make-movie gives a different name to all
the generated PDF files, which can be handy to see what has happened, but
can take up quite a lot of disk space too. When this option is disabled,
the same PDF file is rewritten over and over again.
- -b, --bitrate
RATE
- Bitrate (indicative). Passed directly to ffmpeg.
- --codec
CODEC
- Target codec.
- --ffmpeg-args
ARGS
- Extra ffmpeg args.