# Creating Animations/ Video of plot

**URL:** <https://community.freefem.org/t/creating-animations-video-of-plot/2580>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [July 4, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/creating-animations-video-of-plot/2580 "2023-07-04T12:28:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![niks9k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ed8c4c/32.png) [@niks9k](https://community.freefem.org/u/niks9k)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/creating-animations-video-of-plot/2580/1 "2023-07-04T12:28:46Z")

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Hi, I was working on a project which in which i had to measure properties of fluid flow, so we ploting the solution to one field variable every 0.01 sec. But for post processing, I needed to create a video or animation of some sort, is there any way to obtain a .mov or mp4 file of the plots or save all the plots as jpg in a folder, where i can combine them up to make a video

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**Author:** ![marchywka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@marchywka](https://community.freefem.org/u/marchywka)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/creating-animations-video-of-plot/2580/2 "2023-07-04T13:02:38Z")

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There are probably a lot of utilities for that although ffmpeg may be a good one,  
not sure if imagemagick does it or not,

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24961127/how-to-create-a-video-from-images-with-ffmpeg>

I guess FF supports something like vtk and not sure if those packages have  
other means to do that. Personally I’ve always wanted an app-independent  
data view like an oscilloscope and had a real crude one a decade or so ago  
but the FF ff-glut renewed my interest. Ideally you just write to a fifo and it  
displays and saves etc. If anyone knows of a package like that it may  
be nice to have.

There are probably a lot of video editor programs out there if you really  
want to get fancy though. I just like simple things that integrate well.

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**Author:** ![niks9k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ed8c4c/32.png) [@niks9k](https://community.freefem.org/u/niks9k)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/creating-animations-video-of-plot/2580/3 "2023-07-08T13:09:20Z")

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Sorry, but i am a newbie to freeFem and am unable to understand the later part of your answer. I would be grateful if you could elaborate it in simpler way.  
Thank you

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**Author:** ![marchywka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@marchywka](https://community.freefem.org/u/marchywka)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/creating-animations-video-of-plot/2580/4 "2023-07-08T13:25:23Z")

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This illustrates post script output,

[https://doc.freefem.org/documentation/visualization.html](https://doc.freefem.org/documentation/visualization.html)

and you can make file names based on loop variables.  
From there it should be a matter of picking utilities.

I guess another option is to use a screen capture utility with plot. This sounds  
cumbersome but if you really want to capture the exact screen output  
you could make the plot, write to a fifo, and then have another script that  
captures the plot ( with pid discovered somehow I guess ) .  
I only mention it since I happen to be doing something similar with c++  
processing code dumping dofs to files processing and sending bck to FF.