Hi Mark (and Matthias),
I'm not sure if "Windows Movie Maker" is the same as (or maybe the predecessor to?) ""Windows Live Movie Maker" (http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker?os=other), but this is what I used recently to string together a series of png images from pymol to make a wmv movie of a protein motion. With Windows 7, the movie maker is no longer included by default with the OS so it must be downloaded (for free) and installed.
Eric
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Eric T. Larson, PhD
Biomolecular Structure Center
Department of Biochemistry
Box 357742
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
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On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Matthias Haffke wrote:
>Hi Mark,
>
>just use the "Windows Movie Maker" - it's easy to use and comes along with Windows (or can be downloaded via microsoft.com). This
>will help you to generate .wmv output files of any kind of video and / or picture files you provide as input files. The best possible
>quality output format in Windows Movie Maker is 1080p, which should give you a good quality. If there is still the need to convert it
>to .mpeg, you can use ASF Converter, which is freeware as well (see here: http://www.boilsoft.com/download.html ).
>
>Matthias
>
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>Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 16:21:02 -0500
>From: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [ccp4bb] Question about movie making
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>All,
>
>Pardon the slightly off-topic question.
>
>We would like to use Pymol and generate movies with it on a WINDOWS computer. We are very familiar with Pymol and how to make the
>correct views etc. We write the individual frames out into PNG files.
>
>So what is left to do, is to "stitch together" the PNG images to an MPEG file. On Linux you could do this with mencoder. But we would
>like to do this on Windows and installing mencoder on windows is possible but not easy.
>
>We have found videomach, which costs a very small amount of money to obtain. Similarly, Adobe Premiere is affordable for an
>educational institution. We don't mind paying, but before we go there, does anyone have experience with making MPEG movies from PNG
>files on windows? What is your experience with quality of product and especially with user friendliness?
>
>If you have any insight, we would appreciate your comments.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Mark van der Woerd
>Colorado State University
>
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