After reading Jürgen's helpful response, i found a free program called LICEcap for windows or Mac (http://www.cockos.com/licecap/) which will directly record an animated gif of part of the screen - very handing for presentations as no plugins are required.
Cheers,
Oliver.
On Jun 26, 2013, at 8:52 AM, "Bosch, Juergen" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On a Mac open QuickTime and select screen recording, if you want you can even eternalize your thoughts through spoken words.
> I'm sure a convenient solution exists for other platforms with preinstalled software.
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> Jürgen
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> Jürgen Bosch
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> On Jun 26, 2013, at 8:28, "Oliver Clarke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is perhaps more of a wish list request… I often use coot to make density figures for presentations of a structure still in progress, but it is difficult to convey the shape or quality of density from a 2D snapshot.
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>> A feature that perhaps might be helpful in this regard would be to add an option, in addition to taking a simple screenshot, to take an "animated screenshot".
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>> I would envision the user being able to select the rotation axis (x, y or z), and coot stitching together a few screenshots to create an animation of rocking about said axis, perhaps 10 or 20 degrees either side.
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>> I realize this is a feature that will probably be near the bottom of the list in terms of desired features, but I believe it would be helpful for conveying density quality and the fit of the structure to the density to those not actively involved in the model building process.
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>> Cheers,
>> Oliver.
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