NAME

       ct2-make-movie - manual page for ct2-make-movie

SYNOPSIS

       ct2-make-movie [options] file.ct2 arguments...

DESCRIPTION

       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.

OPTIONS

       -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.

SEE ALSO

       convert(1), pdftoppm(1), ffmpeg(1), ctioga2(1)