The tool converts multi-position ND-time-series to avi movies and allows to add a time-stamp to each frame.

You must have the Timebar-plugin installed. Save the file nd_2_avi.ijm into the folder macros/toolsets of your FIJI installation.

Select the "nd_2_avi" tool from the >> button of the ImageJ launcher.

• The first button opens this help-page
• The c-button converts an nd-file to an avi-movie, adds the timestamps and also creates a single tiff-image for each series

Right-click the c-button to open the options-dialog.

time intervall in seconds

The time between to frames in the time-series in seconds

AVI frame rate

The number of frames per second in the exported avi-movie

offset

The value at which the timestamp starts in the first frame of the movie (usually 0)

thickness

The thickness of the font

font size

The size of the font

color

The foreground color of the timestamp

background color

The background color of the timestamp

location

The location where the timestamp will be added to the frame, if "at selection" is chosen, the image must contain a selection.

time format

The format of the timestamp.

bold

If selected a bold font will be used

hide bar

If selected the progress bar will not be displayed with the timestamp

serif font

If selected a serif font will be used

show units

If selected the time units (days, minutes, seconds, ...) will be displayed

Press the c-button and in the file-dialog that will be opened, choose the folder containing the nd-file. The result avi and tif-files will be written to a subfolder named converted of the input folder.