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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2005 - 13:35:36 CST

Stuart,
  I haven't really written a text based interface for driving the
'vmdmovie' plugin, though this is an excellent idea. In the short term,
if you want to make movies, you can either hack the vmdmovie plugin, or
you can use one of the simpler movie generation scripts that preceeded
it. The simpler scripts are posted in the VMD script library here in
the "movie making scripts" area:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/script_library/

If you decide to hack the plugin source code, you could do it by
modifying the contents of the ::MovieMaker::buildmovie procedure,
eliminating all of the GUI stuff and just having it to the low
level movie crunching stuff.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:42:11PM +0000, Stuart Murdock wrote:
> Hi VMD Users
>
> I am trying to produce a simple mpeg movie of a molecule which has
> coordinates stored
> in a file which is PDB formatted.
>
> I can do exactly what I want if I type
>
> >vmd file.pdb
>
> then I go to Extensions -> vmdmovie -> Set working directory and then the
> Name of the movie and then Make Movie.
>
> I would like to be able to do this at a linux prompt in general for many
> different molecules.
>
> When I save the state and look at the commands they seem to be quite
> molecule specific.
>
> Is there a simple way to do this at the linux prompt?
>
> Thanks
>
> Stuart
>
> --
>
> Stuart Murdock Ph.D,
> Research Fellow,
> Dept. of Chemistry / E-Science,
> University of Southampton,
> Highfield, Southampton,
> SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
>
> http://www.biosimgrid.org 

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