Hi Mark (and Matthias), I'm not sure if "Windows Movie Maker" is the same as (or maybe the predecessor to?) ""Windows Live Movie Maker" (http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker?os=other), but this is what I used recently to string together a series of png images from pymol to make a wmv movie of a protein motion. With Windows 7, the movie maker is no longer included by default with the OS so it must be downloaded (for free) and installed.
Eric ================================ Eric T. Larson, PhD Biomolecular Structure Center Department of Biochemistry Box 357742 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 email: larso...@u.washington.edu ================================ On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Matthias Haffke wrote:
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
