Difference between revisions of "MovieSchool 6"
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Revision as of 09:54, 2 July 2009
Exporting your Movie
This wiki already has lots of information on how to convert your PyMOL movie to another format. Check out those pages.
Once you've setup your movie as in any of the previous examples, you have a couple options for making a movie.
Export from PyMOL: Newer PyMOLs support
- File→Save Movie As→MPEG
- File→Save Movie As→PNG Images
from the menu.
mpng: You can still use the good old mpng option to save all your frames to disk. You can then compile them into a MPEG (see below).
Old Style: One of the older scripting styles was to make minor changes and dump PNGs. This is essentially obviated with PyMOL's new movie-making functionality. The old style was to simply call cmd.png every time you made a scene change.
Hints:
- Movie not ray traced? Make sure you set ray_trace_frames to 1.
Codecs
See Software_Codecs for information on how to stitch together movies from PNGs and optimize them for great crisp-looking movies.