Re: [PyMOL] Low-cost movie construction (Windows)

2002-10-28 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi there, For making movies there are also lots of free tools available. For instance, AVI's can be made under windows with MakeAVI: https://sourceforge.net/projects/makeavi/ Very easy to use, fast, and free. Cheers, Tsjerk -- ~~~

[PyMOL] Re: CCL:scripting pymol

2002-10-28 Thread Warren L. DeLano
Luca, For future reference, please direct technical PyMOL questions like this to the PyMOL mailing list. (See MailLists on http://www.pymol.org) Over the past couple of years, we've built up an active community of nearly 300 PyMOL users who are there to learn and to help each other get the mos

RE: [PyMOL] PyMol Manual

2002-10-28 Thread DeLano, Warren
Gordon, I fully agree with your assessment that PyMOL is currently unable to reach its potential due to a number of factors, including poor documentation. Nevertheless, I do have a defined plan for eliminating these deficits. It involves securing funding to hire people under contract

[PyMOL] pymol movies (again, sorry) and windows

2002-10-28 Thread wgscott
Dear Stephen Miller: Also, don't overlook the fact that pymol itself is a movie player. In powerpoint you can create what is called a hyperlink to pymol, and then you can just load in your macro (pml script) and your movie starts playing embedded in powerpoint. This is far better because you

[PyMOL] making movies (animated gifs)

2002-10-28 Thread wgscott
There is a program called gif-builder (Mac OS 9 and 10) that is free and uses a variety of input types to make an animated gif which then is platform-independent. Sadly the link is broken http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/235 but if anyone needs it I can email you mine. Also if you have

Re: [PyMOL] PyMol Manual

2002-10-28 Thread gwebster
Dear Byron Yes, it's a nice Catch-22 isn't it ... write a PyMol manual so people like myself will be able to learn PyMol well enought to be able to write the PyMol manual! Gordon Byron Delabarre 10/28/2002 01:32 PM Please respond to byron To: gwebs...@lexigenpharm.com

Re: [PyMOL] PyMol Manual

2002-10-28 Thread Byron Delabarre
So write one. gwebs...@lexigenpharm.com wrote: Fellow PyMol Users Although I like using PyMol, I would like to submit a gripe about the severe lack of a decent PyMol manual. A deeper description of the program's features is required if people are seriously going to use PyMol for tricky thi

[PyMOL] PyMol Manual

2002-10-28 Thread gwebster
Fellow PyMol Users Although I like using PyMol, I would like to submit a gripe about the severe lack of a decent PyMol manual. A deeper description of the program's features is required if people are seriously going to use PyMol for tricky things beyond simple visualization (simple visualizati

Re: [PyMOL] Low-cost movie construction (OSX)

2002-10-28 Thread Luca Jovine
An even cheaper alternative to Premiere, if you are using Mac OSX, is a $20 shareware program called QuickMovie: http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/QuickMovie.html I have recently tested it to generate a QuickTime movie from PyMOL PNG frames, and it worked just fine; it suppor

[PyMOL] Isomesh level units?

2002-10-28 Thread Kelley Moremen
Dear Pymolers, I am trying to create a carved electron density around a ligand for a publication figure and I have come up with a question: what is the relationship between the level number in an isomesh command line versus a sigma level for a display of the density map in an application such as

[PyMOL] Low-cost movie construction (Windows)

2002-10-28 Thread Stephen Miller
Jasc, the guys that make Paint Shop Pro, have a product called Animation Shop 3 that can directly import a set of .png files and output movie files in several formats (including .avi, .gif). I've used this to create animations for use in Powerpoint presentations that are quite reasonable. The so