OMERO.movie =========== A short decription on how to create movies from OMERO. Creating a movie from OMERO --------------------------- OMERO provides a script to make Mpeg or Quicktime movies from any image in the server. These movies are created by a script called makemovie.py, this script has a number of options: these include: selecting a range of Z,T planes, the channels to display. The movie can also show information overlayed over the image: z-section, scale bar and timing. The resulting movie will then be uploaded to the server by the script and become a file attachment to the source image. Viewing the movie ----------------- The make movie script allows you to save the movie in two different formats, a DivX encoded AVI and Quicktime movie. To view the AVI you may need to install a divX codec from `Â DivX <https://www.divx.com/>`_. It should be noted that the DivX avi is normally 1/3 to 1/10 the size of the Quicktime movie. Installing the make movie script -------------------------------- The make movie script currently uses the `mencoder <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html>`_ utility to encode the movies, this command should be in the path of the computer (icegrid node) running the script. We have :snapshot:`Mac OSX installs for mencoder <mencoder/mac/>` which were originally provided `here <https://stefpause.com/apple/mac/mplayer-os-x-10rc1-and-mencoder-binaries/>`__. Unzip and put the mencoder in the PATH available to the server, e.g. /usr/local/bin/ . You may need to restart the server for this to take effect. There are also macports, rpms and debs for mencoder. Make movie also uses Pillow_ and `numpy <https://www.scipy.org/install.html>`_. Make movie command arguments ---------------------------- A detailed list of the commands accepted by the script are: - imageId: This id of the image to create the movie from - output: The name of the output file, sans the extension - zStart: The starting z-section to create the movie from - zEnd: The final z-section - tStart: The starting timepoint to create the movie - tEnd: The final timepoint. - channels: The list of channels to use in the movie (index, from 0) - splitView: Should we show the split view in the movie (not available yet) - showTime: Show the average time of the aquisition of the channels in the frame. - showPlaneInfo: Show the time and z-section of the current frame. - fps: The number of frames per second of the movie - scalebar: The scalebar size in microns, if <=0 will not show scale bar. - format: The format of the movie to be created currently supports 'video/mpeg', 'video/quicktime' - overlayColour: The colour of the overlays, scalebar, time, as int(RGB) - fileAnnotation: The fileAnnotation id of the uploaded movie. (return value from script)