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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2011 - 12:14:32 CDT

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:12 PM, siladitya mukherjee
<mukherjeesiladitya_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
> I made the movie successfully, thanks a lot for your help. But I have
> another question, in the movie I made I can only see the rotation but not
> the aggregation of the system. Suppose I have a system in which particles
> are aggregating from frame 1 to frame 500, my question is it possible to
> make a movie in VMD where I can see the aggregation of the molecules from
> the initial to the final frame, not only the rotational trajectory.

use: VMD Movie Maker -> Movie Settings -> Trajectory

axel.

> Thanks,
> Siladitya
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:04 PM, siladitya mukherjee
> <mukherjeesiladitya_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>>
>
> 

-- 
Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.