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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 20 2010 - 07:39:03 CDT

Hi,
  Do you have the program "ppmtompeg" installed on your machine?
See the "software requirements" section of the VMD movie plugin
documentation:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 02:36:20PM +0200, Carla Jamous wrote:
> I'm using VMD 1.8.6 on Ubuntu. I selected format MPEG-1(ppmtompeg).
>
> Thanks again,
> Carla
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:32 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> You didn't say what operating system you're using or which version
> of VMD you're running, both of which would be very helpful in allowing
> us to give you suggestions. Which movie compression format did you
> select in the movie maker plugin graphical interface?
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 02:07:52PM +0200, Carla Jamous wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > please it's the first time I'm trying to make a movie with vmd.
> > I did with movie maker (like in the tutorial).
> > I get like a million files *.ppm, is that normal? how can I get a
> single
> > *.mpg file?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Carla
> >
> > PS: sorry if my question is too stupid! but I don't have the answer
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NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078