# how to create a 4D animation
**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-create-a-4d-animation/10692
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 15, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-create-a-4d-animation/10692 "2020-03-15T12:44:12Z")
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### Author:  [@starhopper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/starhopper)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-create-a-4d-animation/10692/1 "2020-03-15T12:44:12Z")
I’ve got a sequence of image stacks acquired in time lapse way. I want to visualize them by creating a 4D animation. Firstly I have to convert those image stacks into a DICOM file, thus I can browse it with MultiVolumeExplorer. Under Data module, I can create a new study and export it as a DICOM. But it ended up with splitting my image stacks into folders containing individual images of corresponding stacks. How can I generate a multivolume files that can be recognized by MutltiVolumeExplorer?
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### Author:  [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-create-a-4d-animation/10692/2 "2020-03-15T12:46:29Z")
I would recommend to use Sequences extension for this. If you load all the volumes into the scene then you can import them into a replayable 4D sequence as described here: [https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Extensions/Sequences#Creating\_sequences\_from\_a\_set\_of\_nodes](https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Extensions/Sequences#Creating_sequences_from_a_set_of_nodes)
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### Author:  [@starhopper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/starhopper)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2020, 9:10am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-create-a-4d-animation/10692/3 "2020-03-16T09:10:47Z")
It does worked out! Thank you for this recommendation!