Export Animation

You can export animated maps and graphs as audio-video interleave files (*.avi). AVI files store video clips and are playable in several media players and browsers.

To export animation

Choose "Export animation" from the "Map" or "Graph" menu of the view you wish to export.   

Click on the image below for more information.

Start and end times

First, set the start and end times for the animation.  

Time increment

Next, select the time increment (how big you want the jumps in time to be.) If your dataset has hours, minutes, and seconds, those boxes will be available. In the example above, the data has time information down to days, but not below.  

Use exact time

As there is some variation in the number of days in a year, and days in a month, for data in these units SpaceStat offers you the option of exporting data in "exact time."  If you select this option, the animation will jump forward by a set time increment in days (you could input 365 days for a year, or 30 days for a month). If you leave "use exact time" cleared, the animation will jump forward by the pre-set step size to the anniversary of the initial date. If the step size is 1 year and the first time is January 1, it will jump forward to the next January 1.  If "use exact time" is checked, and you enter 365 days as your interval, the date corresponding to the jump will wander a bit from January 1 as leap years occur.

Animation width

At export, you choose the size of the animation. The default size is the size of the window on your screen. Reducing the animation width will lower the file size but the animation will be narrower. Reducing the size of the animation can make it appear smudged.