I just found this old thread in my CCP4 folder. 1. mencoder can convert pymol's quicktime format movies into avi movies. 2. Powerpoint movie handling is beyond ancient and sometimes AVI movies can be played in MS mediaplayer but Powerpoint would not play them. The remedy is to use "good"-sized frames, i.e. the frame height and width should be divisible by 2, or, better, 4, or, even better, 8. 3. If your images produced using 24bit colors it is unwise to make movies via 8bit animated gifs, unless your images contain only a few basic colors. 4. Perhaps, the original poster can put up a few of his frames on a webserver for download and I (we) can take a look at what is wrong with them.
Regards, Petr Quoting "Ibrahim M. Moustafa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
