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From: siladitya mukherjee (mukherjeesiladitya_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 01 2011 - 13:04:58 CDT

Hi,

Thanks a lot. I will try that and let you know.

Siladitya

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:15 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> There was a bug in the version of the movie maker plugin shipped
> with VMD 1.9. It is fixed now, I've attached a copy of the latest
> version of the movie maker plugin to this email.
>
> Please try replacing your existing copy of the vmdmovie plugin
> with the new one I've attached to this email, and let me know if
> it solves your problem or not.
>
> To replace your existing version with the new one, go into:
> c:\Program Files
> (or c:\Program Files (x86) if you're using a 64-bit Windows)
>
> Then cd to:
> University of Illinois\vmd\plugins\noarch\tcl\vmdmovie1.8
>
> Within that directory, rename the old vmdmovie.tcl to vmdmovie.tcl.old
> Then copy in the new vmdmovie.tcl I've attached to this email.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 11:11:15AM -0500, siladitya mukherjee wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I actually want to make a movie of my simulation in VMD. I have the
> trial
> > version of videomach installed in my machine. So when I started making
> the
> > movie the rendering portion was fine it did render the 500 frame
> properly
> > (bmp screenshot) after that a message was prompted that could not
> find
> > the videomach and need to specify the path, then I specified the path
> and
> > the videomach window was opened but it did give a message like bmp0000
> > image could not found and no input files, but the VMD executable at
> the
> > same time has shown that movie generation is completed and there was
> no
> > movie file in the specified working directory. I could not understand
> the
> > problem. Any help would be appreciated.
> > Thanks,
> > Siladitya
>
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