For lots of image conversion/movie-making on your Windows PC --
including direct import of PNG sequences -- another piece of software to
consider is Logipole's "Konvertor" file convertor. I used this a while
ago when I was trying to go backwards from what most people are
describing here (i.e.,
Michael,
Actually, much more affordable than Premiere these days is
Quicktime Pro ($30) which can, on the Mac only (I think), directly
import a sequence PNG files from PyMOL and write out compressed
Quicktime or AVI files.
If you're tied to Windows, I don't yet know of a better
Micheal -
I'd suggest using quicktime pro. I have both adobe premiere & qtpro and found
that qtpro did a superior job with much less hassle. qtpro can produce the
sorenson encoded (mac friendly) as well as the avi format (pc&powerpoint
friendly). There is also a free package out there calle
The output format/compression really depends on the output device you plan
on delivering the final clip to. Don't go uncompressed unless you have a
killer system that can sustain NTSC and/or PAL (29.97/25fps,
respectively) frame rate. If it's for presentations and/or the web, 12
f/s is the 'stand
