I installed ffmpeg and would like to save an animation. My code is #evo is the dataset composed of sequence of images evo = np.load('bed_evolution_3000iter_2.npy') fig = plt.figure(figsize=(15,15*2*width/length)) # make axesimage object # the vmin and vmax here are very important to get the color map correct im = plt.imshow(np.transpose(evo[0]), cmap=plt.get_cmap('jet'), vmin=0, vmax=1300) cbar_ax = fig.add_axes([0.85, 0.15, 0.05, 0.7]) fig.colorbar(im, cax=cbar_ax) fig.subplots_adjust(right=0.8) def updatefig(j): # set the data in the axesimage object im.set_array(np.transpose(evo[j])) # return the artists set return im, # kick off the animation ani = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, updatefig, frames=range(len(evo)), interval=100, blit=True) #now just need to get the ability to save... this uses FFwriter = animation.FFMpegWriter() ani.save('basic_animation.mp4', writer = FFwriter, fps=30, extra_args =([vcodec', 'libx264']) The animation runs and it looks good, but I just can't get it to save. The error message (at this stage) is I am not sure what's going wrong. Any help is appreciated. EDIT: Following Can't save matplotlib animation I added plt.rcParams['animation.ffmpeg_path'] ='C:\\Program Files\\ffmpeg \\bin\\ffmpeg.exe' Which returns Warning: Cannot change to a different GUI toolkit: qt. Using qt4 instead. ERROR: execution aborted Continue reading...
