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From: Sumit Kumar (sumit.iocl.chennai_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2013 - 15:16:13 CDT

Hello Peter,

Thanks. This is little tedious a process. Is there any other way that you
could make a movie?

Also, can PDB files alone be used to generate the animations, I mean frame
by frame?

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Peter Murphy <pwmurphy_at_dal.ca> wrote:

> Download the trajectory_movie.tcl script from the VMD script library. In
> its current form it will output rgb files (or BMP, depending on defaults
> for the system you are on), but it can be easily modified to produce POV
> file (Ie use another VMD rendering mode). Regardless of how you get the
> bunch of BMPs (or other image files)... whether it be directly from VMD or
> through rendering the pov files... you can then load the into your other
> favourite freeware program to make a movie. Personally I've been using
> ffmpeg... simple command line program :)
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Peter
>
> On 26/08/2013 3:29 PM, chin chun wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Are there any methods to make movie in VMD without using Videomach
>> software. Like some other free softwares.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Chinchun
>>
>
>
> --
>
> Peter Murphy, Ph.D. Candidate
> Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
> Dalhousie University
> Halifax, NS
> Canada
>
>