http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Save-as-avi-tries-to-open-new-avi-tp5015563p5015573.html
That was it! Replacing AVI…” with AVI… “ makes it work. Looking closely at the macro recorder shows it.
As soon as I read your reply, I recalled there was a thread on this a couple of years ago.
> Hi Glen,
>
> in addition to the wrong quote mentioned by Gabriel, for saving an AVI, please note that there must be a space at the end of "AVI... "
> The menu commands for reading and writing AVI files are distinguished by whether there is a space at the end or not.
> Use Plugins>Macros>Record to see the difference.
>
> By the way, having a space at the end or not is used also to distinguish other commands that seem to be identical at first glance, e.g.
> importing/saving "Image Sequence...",
> importing/saving "Results..."
> importing/saving "Text Image..."
> importing/saving "XY Coordinates..."
> Process>Math>Macro... and Process>Batch>Macro...,
> Edit>Options>Reset... and Plugins>Untilities>Reset...
> Plugins>New>Table... and File>Import>Table
>
> Michael
> ________________________________________________________________
> On Feb 7, 2016, at 22:01, Glen MacDonald wrote:
>
>> thanks Herbie and Gabriel,
>> Tested variations of your suggestions and still obtain a dialog to open an avi.
>> the target directory string already ended in a File.separator, “/“:
>> target=dir+basename+"Frequencies"+File.separator;
>>
>> ————extract and rename subset of movie--------
>> savefreq=target+getTitle(); //replaced target=target+getTitle();
>> run("AVI...","compression=JPEG frame=30 save=“+savefreq+".avi”);
>> then stripped off the File.separator to copy Herbie’s exact syntax,
>> run("AVI...","compression=JPEG frame=30 save="+target+"/test.avi”);// target is destination directory
>>
>> /Users/Histo/Desktop/Frequencies/
>>
>> Regards,
>> Glen MacDonald
>> Digital Microscopy Center
>> Box 357923
>> University of Washington
>> Seattle, WA 98195-7923 USA
>> (206) 616-4156
>>
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>> On Feb 7, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Herbie <
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>>
>>> Good day Glen,
>>>
>>> This works for me:
>>>
>>> path = "/Applications/ImageJ/etc";
>>> run("AVI... ", "compression=JPEG frame=30 save=" + path + "/Stack.avi");
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Herbie
>>>
>>> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>>> Am 07.02.16 um 20:01 schrieb Glen MacDonald:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> The following line to save an AVI in a macro brings up a dialog window to open an avi. the line was copied from the Macro Recorder and I only added the text between [].
>>>>
>>>> run("AVI...","compression=JPEG frame=30 save=["+target+wt+"]”);
>>>> where target is the save directory and wt is the window title for the movie.
>>>>
>>>> Fiji, 2.0.0-rc-44/1.50e99, Java 1.8.0_65, OSX10.9.5
>>>>
>>>> Is this a simple syntax error?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Glen MacDonald
>>>> Digital Microscopy Center
>>>> Box 357923
>>>> University of Washington
>>>> Seattle, WA 98195-7923 USA
>>>> (206) 616-4156
>>>>
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