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" <jubo...@jhsph.edu> 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. > > Jürgen > > ...................... > Jürgen Bosch > Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health > Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology > Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute > 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 > Baltimore, MD 21205 > Phone: +1-410-614-4742 > Lab: +1-410-614-4894 > Fax: +1-410-955-3655 > http://lupo.jhsph.edu > > On Jun 26, 2013, at 8:28, "Oliver Clarke" <olibcla...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> 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". >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> Cheers, >> Oliver.
