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From: Eric H. Lee (ericlee_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 25 2009 - 17:44:43 CDT

Probably the most simple way to make a movie since you already have
the trajectories is to load the trajectories into VMD and use the
Moviemaker tool (Extensions > Movie Maker) to render the movie frame
by frame. It will produce an mpeg of your trajectory.

-Eric

On Mar 25, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Lan He wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to use VMD for the movie of bonding formation. I have
> coordinate files for the structure from MD simulations. Now I'm
> planing to prepare sufficient frames for the structure along MD
> evolution time at first. Since each frame for the struture at
> specific MD time has its coordinate file, I don't know how to use
> tcl script to drive render commands and produce the sequence of all
> frames.
> Next, if all frames are ready, I'd like to know if I need import
> these figure files into animation package ,such as Movie maker in
> VMD extensions. As I never make a movie for MD simulation results, I
> really have no idea about this. If you know how to use VMD for
> making movies, please kindly tell me the procedure or give me some
> advice. Thank you so much!
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lan He
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
>
> Arizona State University
>
> Tempe, AZ
>

Eric H. Lee
Medical Scholars Program
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, UIUC
ericlee_at_ks.uiuc.edu