Eric, It sounds like you're describing a "flip card" animation using images created by Jmol. In theory, Windows' native movie maker or something like Roxio's VideoWave could do this. It seems to me, however, that a screen capture movie from Camtasia would be a easy way to do this. We've created Jmol Videos for YouTube using this approach.
If you want to do this using the applet, you can create a Web page that is really a movie stage. Half the page is an applet, and the other have has some control features, including a script execution text field. Camtasia can be set to capture the applet window only, and the control side of the page can be used to control the action. Here is Tom Newton (USM) using Camtasia to make just such a movie. In this case, the control screen is visible, but Camtasia can be set to capture only the Jmol window: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7f3BAqfzDM Otis -- Otis Rothenberger o...@chemagic.com http://chemagic.com On Jan 2, 2012, at 9:26 PM, Eric Martz wrote: > If someone has experience generating true movies from Jmol (movies > that will play in a web browser, or at least will play on both > Windows and Macs without special software) I would appreciate advice. > > I think the idea is to save a series of jpg files from a Jmol script. > The jpg files are the frames of a movie. One then assembles the jpg > files into some sort of movie (mpg?) file. How? What software is > easiest for the assembly, to control the speed of the movie, etc.? > > I have experience using RasMol scripts to save a series of gif files, > and assembling those into a multi-gif "movie" that plays in all web > browsers. As far as I can see, Jmol cannot write gif files. > > I see that Jmol's "write image" command can save several variations > on png image format and ppm format. I don't know if any of those are > advantageous for assembling a movie. > > Thanks, -Eric > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Write once. Port to many. > Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create > new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the > Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
