Hi Mark,
just use the "Windows Movie Maker" - it's easy to use and comes along with
Windows (or can be downloaded via microsoft.com). This will help you to
generate .wmv output files of any kind of video and / or picture files you
provide as input files. The best possible quality output format in Windows
Movie Maker is 1080p, which should give you a good quality. If there is still
the need to convert it to .mpeg, you can use ASF Converter, which is freeware
as well (see here: http://www.boilsoft.com/download.html ).
Matthias
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 16:21:02 -0500
From: mjvdwo...@netscape.net
Subject: [ccp4bb] Question about movie making
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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
