<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Sebastián,</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">First, make sure you are typing "idt" and not "Idt". The "idt" command is included with the NCL software, so you should have access to it. If you type:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">which ncl</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">which idt</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">it should report finding both of these commands in the same directory.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">My suggestion is to perhaps *not* use NCGM as your output format, but instead use "eps" or "ps" and then use one of many tools available for converting a PS file to an animated GIF or MPEG, depending on what you want. Here's how you would use the "convert" tool, which is part of the free ImageMagick package to convert a series of EPS files to an animated GIF:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><pre> convert -delay 50 *.eps anim.gif</pre></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The second example "animate_2.ncl" shows how to do this. You should also read our FAQ on this topic:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/FAQ/#o_formats_008">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/FAQ/#o_formats_008</a></span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hopefully some NCL Talkers out there will have other ( maybe better) suggestions for creating animations. There are lots of ways to do this, and it just depends on what format and quality you need.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">--Mary</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Sebastian Otarola-Bustos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sotarola@nd.edu" target="_blank">sotarola@nd.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello, I am new at WRF and I'm trying to postprocess some results. I've been trying to run the example script animate_1.ncl which I found in the NCL_page. But It threw me some errors. Particularly, when I use Idt, it doesn't recognize the command. You know what can I do to solve this. Another thing I am wondering to know, can you tell me if the files are well loaded, because It doesn't threw me any error, I' ve loaded directly a <a href="http://wrfout.nc" target="_blank">wrfout.nc</a> file.I attached you the script so it would be great if you can help me with this. Finally, I would like to share the video, how can I export ncgm to multimedia stantar format.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Sebastián. <br></div>
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