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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 06 2007 - 12:34:37 CST

Hi,
  Just FYI, I hope to eliminate the need for VideoMach in future versions
of the Windows version of VMD. We used VideoMach for compression initially
because it was one of the only tools out there, but there are other choices
now that are free and do as good of a job, so we'll be updating the movie
maker to support these other options...

Cheers,
  John

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 04:32:44PM -0800, Lili Peng wrote:
> I have a question regarding making movies in VMD. I want to make an
> animation of my simulation using the following steps:
> > 1) Opened VMD
> > 2) Loaded .top and mdcrd files.
> > 3) From VMD Main, went to Extensions --> Movie Maker --> VMD Movie
> > Generator.
> > 4) Set the appropriate working directory and named the movie.
> > 5) Used default Movie Settings as "Trajectory" and Format of ".MPEG"
> > 6) Selected "Make Movie"
>
> > The progress was successful until I reached stage 7, when I received the
> > popup error "Could not locate 'videomach.exe'. Description: VideoMach
> > audio/video builder and converter. would you like to specify its path?"
> >
> > I did a thorough search for this videomach.exe file on my hard drive but
> > nothing came up. I also reinstalled VMD and there was no luck in that
> > either. The thing is, I have all of the bitmap files (all 240 of them) in
> > my specified working directory. I just need an executable program to link
> > all the bitmaps together in one continuous movie
> file.
>
> Any suggestions on how to rectify this problem would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Lili
> --
> Lili X. Peng
> Graduate Student Researcher
> UCSD Department of Bioengineering
> Email: lpeng_at_ucsd.edu 

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