The problem with animated gif is the color limitation to 254 + one transparent colors, whereas PyMOL generated png's have millions of colors + alpha channel...
-----Original Message----- From: Karsten Seidel [mailto:k...@nmr.mpibpc.mpg.de] Sent: jeudi, 6. juillet 2006 18:15 To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PyMOL] Movie to Powerpoint Hi there, first of all, let me say hello to all list subscribers, as I'm new here. I've been evaluating PyMOL for a couple of months now, coming from Molmol. Chiradip, one option next to creating an MPEG file is to make an animated GIF. Unfortunately, I don't know a free program under Windows to do this job, but you might want to look for it on the web, there must be some. I created a GIF from a set of PyMOL pictures using GraphicConverter on a Mac, a program that came free with OS X (as of 10.3 or 10.4, at least). The file "runs" fine in Powerpoint under Windows, and one doesn't have problems with missing codecs when presenting the slides on an old computer. Just make sure the file is not too large, it may not run as smooth as an .avi on an old box (which implies that this may not be the most elegant solution to the problem, consider it a quick workaround). Karsten. chiradip chatterjee wrote: > Hi Friends > I am a new Windows pymol user. > I made a movie in Pymol and saved the 120 ray traced > *.png frames. > Now I want to convert the *.png files to MPEG files > and then directly convert/run the movie in the > Powerpoint presentation. > can anyone please help me in this regard > Thanks > Chiradip > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > -- Karsten Seidel Max-Planck-Institute for biophysical Chemistry Department of NMR-based Structural Biology (NMR II) Am Fassberg 11 D-37077 Goettingen Phone/Fax: ++49-551-201-2213/2202 Email: k...@nmr.mpibpc.mpg.de http://www.mpibpc.gwdg.de/abteilungen/030/baldus/