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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 23 2011 - 10:36:05 CDT

Hi,
  If you have another video compression tool for Windows, you can
have the VMD movie maker plugin emit the individual movie frames, and
you can run an alternative tool to turn them into a movie as a separate
manual step. All you have to do for this is just change the movie
settings to prevent VMD from deleting the image files at the end of
the movie generation process. That approach works well for things like
Adobe Premiere, Apple iMovie, and many other movie making tools that
cannot be easily scripted from within VMD.
You should also see if you can get a copy of "ffmpeg" for Windows,
which is a free program that originated on Linux:
  http://www.ffmpeg.org/
  http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:57:32AM -0400, Moeed wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am actually looking for a free package. It seems that videomech is not
> free so I was wondering whether there is a way to make movie in windows
> version 1.8.6 without having to make purchase any program. Or do you know
> of any other tool that can be used to make movie? Please let me know.
>
> Thank you, :)
> Best,
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Moeed <lecielll_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for you reply. I am using windows version. The error message
> was
> > because VMD calles for videomech.exe.
>
> have you read the documentation of the VMD movie plugin?
>
> if not, then you should urgently do so, as that will perfectly explain
> the error message. check out:
>
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/
>
> axel.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:13 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> You'll need to provide much more detail about what you did, and
> >> what error messages you got in order for us to help you. Also tell
> >> us which version of VMD you're using and what operating system you're
> >> running.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> John Stone
> >> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 09:56:47PM -0400, Moeed wrote:
> >> > Hello all,
> >> >
> >> > Can you please guide me on how to make movie from trr.
> trajectory
> >> > files? I
> >> > keep getting an error message(a red sign) when I try
> visualization
> >> > option.
> >> > I guess I am missing some essential features for making movie.
> >> >
> >> > Appreciate your help.
> >> > Best,
> >> > Moeed
> >>
> >> --
> >> NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> >> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> >> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> >> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> >> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ Fax: 217-244-6078
> >
> >
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
> akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
>
> Institute for Computational Molecular Science
> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA. 

-- 
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University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/       Fax: 217-244-6078