[ncl-talk] Animate_1.ncl doubt

[Mary Haley]

Sebastián,

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:

which ncl
which idt

it should report finding both of these commands in the same directory.

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:

   convert -delay 50 *.eps anim.gif


The second example "animate_2.ncl" shows how to do this. You should also
read our FAQ on this topic:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/FAQ/#o_formats_008

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.

--Mary


On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Sebastian Otarola-Bustos <sotarola at nd.edu>
wrote:

> 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
> wrfout.nc 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.
>
> Best regards,
> Sebastián.
>
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