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This option is the most versatile but also most difficult to use option. It allows you to create a custom path for your camera based on where it should be at certain times. After adding this to the animation view, double-click the new Camera animation target. This will bring up a page where you can add all the points of your path. As a workflow for this, I recommend moving to the frame and position you want to capture, adding a keyframe in the editor, changing its time value to the current frame, double click on the position, and selecting Use Current. This is still tedious, just slightly less so that individually filling in values. The difference between spline and linear has to do with where the camera is between keyframes. If you choose linear, it will transition with straight lines between the points. If you choose spline, it will give a more flowing path.

Capturing Graphs and Other Visualizations

The process for capturing graphs and other types of visualizations is very similar to the process for the viewport. For a single frame, a camera icon is shown in the top left of the graph view. For an animation, add a PNG/JPG extractor as you would with the viewport but make sure that the plot is selected rather than the viewport (click on it, a blue border should appear). To see what image capture is capturing what, click between your viewport and graph(s). If the blue eye icon appears to the left of the capture device in the pipeline browser, it is capturing the selected view. Once everything is set up, go to File → Save Extracts as before.

If you'd like to give this a try, you can use the can2 example from Getting Started With ParaView to try to create this video:

Note that as ParaView exports individual images per frame, the use of other image processing software such as Adobe Premiere is needed to make a video.