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The disadvantage is that the format of the animation has to be defined before the calculation is started and cannot be changed. Go to Solution > Activities > Create > Solution Animations to set this up.  In CFD-Post, you can record a session file (Session > Start Recording and then load the first of your DPM results files and create the plot you want and write a JPEG file. Then Stop Recording and open the session file in a text editor. You can then add a &#8216;for&#8217; loop using the Perl Language to repeat the recorded process, once for each DPM file.  Then with the JPEGs you can create an MPEG  using a free converter from the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-161555","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-2019-r2","topic-tag-animations","topic-tag-cfd-post","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We generally recommend using Fluent to create DPM animations. This has the advantage that the particle data doesn&#039;t have to be stored as Fluent saves a JPEG picture at each time step and these can then combined at the end of the calculation to create an MPEG animation. 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