From: rmagere
Subject: Is there a faster way to save images (bmps) than save-pixmap with Acl v5.0.1?
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 12:33:15 +0000
Message-ID: <c02lui$t6d$1@news.ox.ac.uk>

Hi,

Background:
 I have a code which generates a `movie' in a bitmap-pane using acl v5.0.1,
at times when it looks right I want to export it so that I can store it and
show it to other people, so far what I have done is: I have used save-pixmap
to output several bmps which I then convert to gifs and make an animated gif
and avi out of them.

Problem:
While generating/watching the movie takes about 2 minutes when I do save to
generate/save the movie takes about 2 hours.

Question:
Is there a better way to save the bitmap-pane output so that I can get a
reasonable speed?

Thanks.