From: Anton Arkhipov (anton_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 25 2009 - 18:00:10 CDT

You can also find the tutorials on this web page very useful:

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/

See the "VMD Images and Movies Tutorial".

This paper might be a good reading too:

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Publications/Papers/paper.cgi?tbcode=HSIN2008

Anton.

On 25 Mar 2009, at 17:44, Eric H. Lee wrote:

> Probably the most simple way to make a movie since you already have
> the trajectories is to load the trajectories into VMD and use the
> Moviemaker tool (Extensions > Movie Maker) to render the movie frame
> by frame. It will produce an mpeg of your trajectory.
>
> -Eric
>
> On Mar 25, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Lan He wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to use VMD for the movie of bonding formation. I have
>> coordinate files for the structure from MD simulations. Now I'm
>> planing to prepare sufficient frames for the structure along MD
>> evolution time at first. Since each frame for the struture at
>> specific MD time has its coordinate file, I don't know how to use
>> tcl script to drive render commands and produce the sequence of all
>> frames.
>> Next, if all frames are ready, I'd like to know if I need import
>> these figure files into animation package ,such as Movie maker in
>> VMD extensions. As I never make a movie for MD simulation results,
>> I really have no idea about this. If you know how to use VMD for
>> making movies, please kindly tell me the procedure or give me some
>> advice. Thank you so much!
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Lan He
>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>> Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
>>
>> Arizona State University
>>
>> Tempe, AZ
>>
>
> Eric H. Lee
> Medical Scholars Program
> Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, UIUC
> ericlee_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>