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From: L. Michel Espinoza-Fonseca (mef_at_ddt.biochem.umn.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2008 - 11:56:11 CDT

Hi Anayo,

In the past I experienced the same problem when creating videos with
VMD under windows. The quick-and-dirty solution I can give you is to
unselect "Delete image files" in the "Movie settings" menu. This will
create a bunch of images for each snapshot of your trajectory (or
whatever you want to animate). When the rendering is done, simply open
videomach and import the first rendered image and videomach will
automatically ask you if you want to import the series of images you
just created. The rest is straightforward.

Please note that you should create a separate folder to temporary
store the image files, so you can easily delete them afterwards.

Cheers,
Michel

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Ananyo Bandyopadhyay <abandyop_at_mtu.edu> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Can somebody please tell me why the movie file after using the movie maker
> tool does not save in the folder? I had been using the unlicensed copy of
> VIDEOMACH and in the command prompt box of VMD it shows that video rendering
> is complete. Even if I select the option of not deleting the image files,
> the image files are there but the movie file is not there. How do I get the
> movie then?
> I am looking forward to somebody's reply.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Ananyo
>
> PhD student
> Materials Science and Engineering
> Michigan Technological University
> email- abandyop_at_mtu.edu
>