Here is one approach: 1. Export the movie frame png files from Pymol or other movie-making program. 2. Use ImageMagick to mogrify the files to gifs 3. Combine the gifs into an animated gif using the ImageMagick convert -adjoin command (you can put together several different sequences using the adjoin command, and put pauses between adjoined segments here, if you wish. 4. Use Fast Movie Processor 1.41 (shareware) to convert bloated animated GIF into a compact avi file that will work natively in Powerpoint.
Steps 1-3 can be done in Linux, if desired, but there is also a Windows version of ImageMagick. FMP is a windows utility. I have more detailed instructions on using the mogrify and convert commands to generate the animated GIFs if you need them, but I'm not near my written notes at the moment. Powerpoint will do animated GIFs but they are REALLLLLLLLLY SLOOOOOOOOOOOW. Cheers, ___________________________________________ Roger S. Rowlett Professor Department of Chemistry Colgate University 13 Oak Drive Hamilton, NY 13346 tel: (315)-228-7245 ofc: (315)-228-7395 fax: (315)-228-7935 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ibrahim M. Moustafa Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 5:32 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Movie for Powerpoint in windows 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------