[gmx-users] movie making

[Peter C. Lai]

I dump my trajectories to individual PDBs and render them to png using Pymol.
Then I string them up into MPNG and compress it to a DivX stream using mplayer/
mencoder. With mencoder, you can specify fps for your moving picture stream.

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:55:43PM +0100, David van der Spoel wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 13:35, Eric Jakobsson wrote:
> > Anybody have thoughts or experiences with Pymol
> > http://pymol.sourceforge.net/  molecular visualization and modeling
> > tool?
> 
> I use it almost exclusively for static pictures now.
> 
> > 
> > At 09:39 AM 1/5/2004 +0200, you wrote:
> > > Dear Itamar, gmx users, 
> > > 
> > > Regarding the low resolution, follow the vmd mailing list archive,
> > > though I don't think there's a real solution - the movies I made
> > > always seemed to look much better in VMD. 
> > > 
> > > Regarding the speed - the only real solution I found is to put more
> > > frames into my movie. If you can use a movie playing program on your
> > > pc than  you can sort it out by choosing the speed in it, but that
> > > won't work in presentations. 
> > > 
> > > Good luck in Hollywood, 
> > > Ran. 
> > > 
> > > Itamar Kass wrote: 
> > > >    Hi all, I am trying to create a movie fron trjectory using vmd
> > > > 1.8.2, and I have two main problems.  The first is the low
> > > > resultion of the output mpg and the second is the high speed it
> > > > rolls.  Does anyone know how to overcome it?
> > > > Thanks, Itamar.
> > > > ********************************************
> > > > Computers are like airconditioners... They don't work well with
> > > > Windows open.
> > > > ********************************************
> > > > ===========================================
> > > > | Itamar Kass
> > > > | The Alexander Silberman
> > > > | Institute of Life Sciences
> > > > | Department of Biological Chemistry
> > > > | The Hebrew University, Givat-Ram
> > > > | Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
> > > > | Tel: +972-(0)2-6585146
> > > > | Fax: +972-(0)2-6584329
> > > > | Email: ikass at cc.huji.ac.il
> > > > | Homepage:
> > > > http://www.ls.huji.ac.il/~membranelab/itamar/itamar_homepage.html
> > > > ============================================
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > Ran Friedman
> > > Laser laboratory for fast reactions in biology
> > > Department of biochemistry
> > > Faculty of life sciences
> > > Tel-Aviv university
> > > 972-3-6409824
> > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > >   
> > ---------------------------------
> > Eric Jakobsson, Ph.D.
> > Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and of
> > Biochemistry
> > Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing
> > Applications
> > Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> > 4021 Beckman Institute, mc251
> > University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
> > ph. 217-244-2896       fax 217-244-2909
> > (Currently on leave to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda,
> > Maryland, to be Director of the NIGMS Center for Bioinformatics and
> > Computational Biology and Chair of the NIH Biomedical Information
> > Science and Technology Initiative Consortium, but maintaining my
> > research lab at Illinois by periodic commuting.  My usual schedule is
> > four days a week at NIH and three days a week at Illinois.)
> -- 
> David.
> ________________________________________________________________________
> David van der Spoel, PhD, Assist. Prof., Molecular Biophysics group,
> Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University.
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Peter C. Lai
University of Connecticut
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
SenseLab | Research Assistant
http://cowbert.2y.net/