From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2015 - 15:57:08 CST

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Akshata Rudrapatna
<akshata.rudrapatna_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you very much! For the POV-Ray option, is there still a need to buy
> the licence to create a movie with it?

what license for what?

> I also had another question: when in the Representations tab, is there a way

please post new and unrelated questions in a new e-mail with a
suitable subject line. thanks.

axel.

> to create new shades of colors for the ColorID option other than the ones
> that already exist there? I have a very large molecule with several
> different PDB files and I would like to clearly distinguish between them as
> I conduct simulations.
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> Akshata Rudrapatna
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Akshata Rudrapatna
>> <akshata.rudrapatna_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello VMD Community:
>> >
>> > I am attempting to create a movie of a molecular simulation that I
>> > conducted
>> > and I am experiencing difficulties in actually saving the movie. I am
>> > able
>> > to record the movie successfully but I cannot save it to my computer.
>> > Are Tachyon/Snapshot external software packages that must be downloaded?
>> > I
>>
>> no. but you need other external software. which one depends on your
>> OS. please see the plugin documenation:
>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/
>>
>> please also note, that you can always tell the plugin to keep the
>> individual images and then use an external converter tool that can
>> convert a series of images into a movie.
>>
>> axel
>>
>> > cannot use Snapshot either, even though it is the default setting of the
>> > video maker on VMD.
>> >
>> > Thank you for your assistance.
>> >
>> > Akshata Rudrapatna
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
>> College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
>> International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.
>
>

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.