Output a single image to disk

Beginners
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Is there a guarantee that if I pulse the movieout TOP’s record parameter while its type parameter is set to “Image”, that the image will be written? Does it depend on how quickly the disk operation takes? I just want to make sure that this isn’t something that usually works but could fail depending on timing.

If the above is true, can I be guaranteed that by the time the pulse is done (say, if i’ve executed opparm -p movieout1 record 1 from a script) that the image will be finished being written to the disk? If not, is there a way that I can be guaranteed that it is in fact done?

thanks,

michael

2

If you have the download type set to Immediate, it should always be done by the time the pulse is finised (it will likely cause a hiccup in playback though).

3

As far as I can tell, download type is only available with an output type of “movie”… not image

4

Oh right, in that case it’s getting forced to immediate, so yes it should be done by the time the pulse returns.