Hey Mark, In Window PC, I used ImageReady, which comes with Photoshop. see this: http://sage.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/movie/making_movie.html
Alternatively, using Mac version of Pymol, you can easily make a movie and save it in quick time format see this: www.chem.umass.edu/.../*BMS2006*Files/.../PymolMorphingMovie.pdf HTH, Matt On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:21 PM, <mjvdwo...@netscape.net> wrote: > All, > > Pardon the slightly off-topic question. > > We would like to use Pymol and generate movies with it on a WINDOWS > computer. We are very familiar with Pymol and how to make the correct views > etc. We write the individual frames out into PNG files. > > So what is left to do, is to "stitch together" the PNG images to an MPEG > file. On Linux you could do this with mencoder. But we would like to do this > on Windows and installing mencoder on windows is possible but not easy. > > We have found videomach, which costs a very small amount of money to > obtain. Similarly, Adobe Premiere is affordable for an educational > institution. We don't mind paying, but before we go there, does anyone have > experience with making MPEG movies from PNG files on windows? What is your > experience with quality of product and especially with user friendliness? > > If you have any insight, we would appreciate your comments. > > Thanks! > > Mark van der Woerd > Colorado State University > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew L.H. Chu, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar - Weis Lab Department of Structural Biology Fairchild D143, MC 5126 Stanford School of Medicine Stanford, CA 94305-5432 Lab: 650-724-3306 Alternative Email: matt...@stanford.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------