Dear Mark,
I am always using mencoder with Windows and it has so far always worked
fine for me.
I didn't need to install anything, normally I just copy the mencoder.exe
file to the directory with my png frames.
Then, I use the following command line in a DOS command window:
c:\my_path\mencoder mf://*.png -mf fps=25:type=png -ovc lavc -ni
-lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=10000000:vhq -nosound -o MyVideo.avi
Hope this helps.
Maike
On 07.03.2011 22:21, mjvdwo...@netscape.net wrote:
All,
Pardon the slightly off-topic question.
We would like to use Pymol and generate movies with it on a WINDOWS
computer. We are very familiar with Pymol and how to make the correct
views etc. We write the individual frames out into PNG files.
So what is left to do, is to "stitch together" the PNG images to an
MPEG file. On Linux you could do this with mencoder. But we would like
to do this on Windows and installing mencoder on windows is possible
but not easy.
We have found videomach, which costs a very small amount of money to
obtain. Similarly, Adobe Premiere is affordable for an educational
institution. We don't mind paying, but before we go there, does anyone
have experience with making MPEG movies from PNG files on windows?
What is your experience with quality of product and especially with
user friendliness?
If you have any insight, we would appreciate your comments.
Thanks!
Mark van der Woerd
Colorado State University