Hi Mark,
What about UCSF Chimera? Very easy to use.
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/tutorials/movies08/moviemaking.html
More on the topic:
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/animations/animations.html
Check out the "Nuclear pores" movie. Amazing stuff. A few years back one had to pay huge $$$ for Maya to make something like that. And the script to make that movie is only 6-7 lines (they removed it from the webpage for some reason).
Chimera comes packaged with ffmpeg, which is an alternative to mencoder, and, by default, you won't even see the frames before they become the final product - your movie in the format and quality of your choice.
Petr
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
