Mathematica Q&A: Creating Movie Files July 15, 2011 — Andrew
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Here is this week’s question: How can I create and export movies
and animations in Mathematica? If you are creating a movie that
you want to include in a web page or send to someone as a
standalone file, then the easiest and most interactive option is
probably to distribute the movie in Computable Document Format
(CDF). To do this, create an interactive animation using a
function like Animate or ListAnimate: The resulting animation
can be saved as a CDF (File -> Save As -> Computable Document
(.cdf)) and embedded live in a web page or distributed like any
other file. Anyone with the Wolfram CDF Player can open and
interact with the animation. The unique advantage of CDF is that
you can very easily include ad