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From: Stéphane Teletchéa (steletch_at_biomedicale.univ-paris5.fr)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 06:21:04 CST

Le Mercredi 13 Novembre 2002 11:39, Vlad Cojocaru a écrit :
> Dear VMD users,
> I know this question was probably asked 100 times. I want to prepare
> an mpeg movie with a trajectory for a presentation tonight
> I have loaded a bunch of pdbs via animatepdbs Tcl script. Could
> somebody guide me to create an mpeg movie out of this?
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> Best whishes,
> vlad

I think you should consider doing a gif-animated file instead of the mpeg if
you only have a dozen of pdb, otherwise, it will run too fast.
You can render each file like a snapshot, or tachyon, or whatever, and then
create the resulting gif with the convert command :

convert -delay 50 snap001.rgb snap002.rgb snap003.rgb ... film.gif

delay is the timestep in 1/100 s and in my case, the rgb files come from the
snapshot render.

You can import the resulting gif in ooimpress like a regular image, it will
animate automagically. It is also easy to watch it in any web browser.

Finally, you should consider doing a size adjustement before the convert
command, to reduce the final size of the snapshots (with also the convert
command).

Stef 

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