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Visualizer Export Features

To save images created in the multi-dimensional Visualizer, use the items in File of the Menu Toolbar.

Copy to Image Document

Images from the Visualizer can be copied to a HCImage Image Document. The image may be enhanced and then saved in a variety of image formats.

Export Movie

To create a multi-image file, use the Visualizer Export Properties dialog.

This dialog allows the current Visualization and movie settings to be applied to the source data and output as a single file, a movie file or other file sequences. The rotational settings of the movie depend on the current movie as defined in the Visualizer Properties and the Visualizer.

Settings: Rotation, Time and Rotation/Time. Depending on the available data and the Group Mode selected Rotation may be the only setting available.

Data Document Group Mode

1. Normal Mode - Is indicated by the folder icon. Normal Mode is compatible with single dimension data sets, e.g. a Z scan. The Data Document is viewed as a folder based tree with each field represented by a folder. All images are used in a single rendering.
2. Selected Mode - Can be activated using the checked box icon in the Data Document Toolbar. This converts each Field Folder in the tree to checkable box. Unwanted images can easily be turned off using by unchecking the box. To control many fields at once, use the right click menu from any Field icon in the tree to select or deselect a range of Fields at once. In Selected Mode only selected (checked) Fields will be processed, so unwanted fields in the document can easily be ignored in the rendering.
3. Group Mode - Allows the Fields in a Data Document to be partitioned into Groups. Each group typically represents a set of Fields related to each other but separated from other groups. This type of data can be created by a Z scan at each point of a time lapse. Each group has a Group Number. The Group Size is the number of Fields in the scan. Each Field has a Group Index which is the number of the Field within the Group.

Note: The Group Mode allows each group of related fields to be rendered as a group. This is useful for time-lapse sequences of Z scans. Each Z scan is group and is rendered in three dimensions, each group is rendered sequentially giving the capability of 4-D movies.

Output Mode (destination)

If more than one group is processed, each group can be exported to the same file (one file name for all groups). See below for examples of the Result Frame which diagrammatically describes the exported results.

Export Drive, Path, Root, and Type

Select the type of destination file (e.g., avi movie file, cxd file or individual image files per frame). The Browse button allows the destination file properties to be set, including file path, root name and file type if needed.

Result

The Result frame graphically shows how the output file will be created, the Output Data File type, and the rendered image width and height. Here are some examples showing the variety of output formats available:

Single Image View

The current view is exported out as individual tiff images or as a multipage tiff.

Current View Movie to a Data Document

The current view is exported out as images organized in a data document.

Current View to an AVI movie file format

The current view is exported out as an AVI.

Multiple Group Movie

One file for All Groups (Data Document file format)

Multiple Group Movie

One file for All Groups (AVI Movie file format)

Multiple Group Movie

One file for All Groups (individual image file format or multipage tiff).

The OK button will accept the settings and exit the dialog. The Export button will exit the dialog and apply the settings to generate the output data files. The Cancel button will ignore changes to the settings and exit the dialog.