Movie/Animation Preferences
The Movie/Animation Preferences specifies settings
for movies generated from GaussView. It is pictured below:

Movie/Animation Preferences: General and for Molecule Animations
The controls in the top half of the panel have the following
meanings:
- Object Quality: Specifies
the movie quality. Moving the slider toward the Realistic
end of the scale increases the file size and the time required to
generate the movie file.
- Enlarge Width and Height by:
Set the default movie scaling factor (as above).
- Background Color:
Background color for the movie.
- Gray Scale: Convert the
movie to gray scale (i.e., black and white) before capturing. The
default is to save a color movie.
- Render Method: Specify
the rendering method. The choices available in this menu are shown
above. This setting should seldom be changed.
- Generic Pixel Format: Use
the system software renderer. This option should be checked only after
rendering problems/failures have been encountered during movie capture
or printing.
- Target Aspect Ratio: A
projection attribute that describes the proportional relationship
between the width of an image and its height.
There are two panels on the bottom half of the Movie/Animation
Preferences window: the Molecule Group
Animations panel, which applies to all animations except those
of vibration frequencies, and the Vibration
Animations panel, which controls animations of vibration
frequencies.
Animations of Multiview Molecule Groups
The controls on the Molecule Group Animations
panel are:
- Repeats: Controls how often, if at all, the animination should repeat after the Start Animation button has been pressed.
- Sequence: Used to play
the movie backwards or forwards and combinations of the two.
- Frame Delay (msec): The
time, in miliseconds, that the rendering engine waits before moving on
to the next image in the movie.
- Endpoint Delay (msec):
Indicates, in miliseconds, how long the delay is between the endpoint
of the animation and the next loop.
Animations of Vibrational Frequencies
The controls on the Vibration
Animation panel are:
- Repeats: Controls how often, if at all, the animination should repeat after the Start Animation button has been pressed.
- Frames per Cycle: The
number of frames the movie is broken into per cycle.
- Frame Delay (msec): The
time, in miliseconds, that the rendering engine waits before moving on
to the next image in the movie.

Movie/Animation Preferences for Normal Mode Animations