Hi all,

    I'm trying to make a movie for a powerpoint presentation but
going through some problems.

   I can make the frames in Pymol, so I have the series of .png
files; no problem in that. The problem is to get a movie (.avi) so it
can be inserted into the powerpoint.

   Googling showed a nice thread in ccp4bb and it is really helpful;
but still can't make what I want exactly.

    I can make a movie.mov which can be played by Quicktime or
realplayer; however, I don't like the way of playing the movie using
other program during the presentation! I want the movie to play in
the same slide, the case when you insert a movie, which can be played
by the windows media player, into the powerpoint.

Making the movie using the windows movie maker is not nice (slow,
sluggish!....may be there are ways to make it nicer! which I dunno!).

  Then I installed Mencoder and issued the command:

    mencoder mf://*.png type=png -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=9000

  I tried various vcodec= values. I still unable to insert the .avi
into the powerpoint. Windows media player cannot open the file either!

   I think there is something missing here!! I'd be appreciated if
anyone can share his/her experience in making a movie that will play
as part of the slide in the powerpoint on a PC laptop.

   P.S . I know that there might be other ways and a lot of options
like CCP4mg..etc. But I don't want to spend time making the figures
again. I already have the figures done in Pymol.

   thanks for your help in advance.

   thanks,
  Ibrhaim



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Ibrahim M. Moustafa, Ph.D.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept.
201 Althouse Lab., Uinversity Park
Pennsylvania State University, PA16802

Tel.  (814)863-8703
Fax. (814)865-7927
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