Re: inverting the color in .mov files

Posted by Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Re-Signal-to-Noise-Ratio-SNR-tp3687073p3687076.html

On Aug 31, 2010, at 7:52 PM, Zach Freyberg wrote:

> Hi,
> I was hoping to first import a .mov format movie into ImageJ and then invert
> the color so that what appears white is now dark against a light background.
> Any thoughts are much appreciated!

Open the movie by dragging and dropping it onto the "ImageJ" window,  invert it using Edit>Invert, then save it using File>Save As>QuickTime Movie. If this causes a memory overflow then open the movie as a virtual stack and invert it using Process>Batch>Virtual Stack. In the dialog box, specify an empty output folder, select "Invert" from the "Add Macro Code" drop down menu and click "Process". This will create a new virtual stack that can be saved in QuickTime or AVI format.

To read and write QuickTime, Windows users must install the QuickTime plugins at

    http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/movie-opener.html

-wayne