Help with Imaris animations (Ortho Slicer movement)

[G. Esteban Fernandez]

All,

 

I need to make a 3D animation of a volume sliced by an XY plane that moves up and down in Z, showing each Z-plane sequentially.  Our lab has done this in the past with Imaris ver. 4.5 using an Ortho Slicer object to cut the volume and Key Frames to control the movement of the Ortho Slicer in the animation; examples:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7078/extref/nature04491-s2.mov

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7078/extref/nature04491-s3.mov

 

Recently, however, the Ortho Slicer has stopped moving during animations because Key Frames do not remember the position of the Ortho Slicer.  I know that the latest versions of Imaris have a "State" window where various elements are selected to move (or not) during animations, and in our case, for example, if the Ortho Slicer box is not checked that element will not move.  Something like that appears to be going on but in our earlier version of Imaris the State window does not exist.  Therefore we don't even have the option to prevent movement of the Ortho Slicer, as far as I know.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to why we mysteriously stopped being able to set Ortho Slicer positions in Key Frames?  Are there similar settings to the State window in previous versions of Imaris?

 

Thanks,

Esteban

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[Arvonn Tully]

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Dear Esteban,

It sounds like a settings has been corrupted in the Registry.  Please
consider removing the Imaris Registry keys, (generally
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bitplane ), then re-running the Imaris program,
which should rebuild the registry settings.

Of note, lmaris 5.0 and later have the Animation State function which you
described.  If you would like a demo of the latest Imaris, version 6.3,
please submit the form on our demo download page:
http://www.bitplane.com/go/download

Please let us know directly if you have any other questions.

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