Editing Making Movies (section)

===Other Options===
* For those with Photoshop CS3 installed: Load files using File - Scripts - Load Files into Stack. This loads the files as layers. Turn on the animation window at Window - Animation. You may need to reverse the frames for the correct direction - this is done at the animation window using the drop menu above the frames. You will also want to set a delay on the frames, select all frames using the dropdown menu and and then adjust to 0.2s on one of the frames. Then export the film using File - Export - Render Video. There are plenty of options for format and compression types. I found a quicktime movie with no compression at 10f/s to be right for my needs. The video could get quite big, but it will look as good as pymol. Alternatively you can also create animated GIFs in Photoshop. Once you have the frames of your clip as above, choose File - Save for Web and Devices and then save the GIF. The limit of 200 pictures is a problem in Photoshop.
* Another good program for converting images into movies of different formats is VideoMach : http://gromada.com/VideoMach.html
* TMPGEnc from http://www.tmpgenc.net is very fast, easy to use, and produces very nice ouput (MPEG-2). Unfortunately, it does not handle images larger than 720 x 576 pixels.
* Adobe Premiere recipe, using Microsoft's MPEG4 V2, 960x720 @ 30 fps, which PowerPoint automatically treats as full-screen (due it's wacky metrics). Using this codec, a recent 24-second movie consumed only 4.5 MB of space, but looks much better than a 640x480 Cinepak-based movie with a file size of around ~40 MB. It definitely pays to use the latest technology.
* A freeware jiffy to convert png files to an animation is imgcon, which proved to be very useful:http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~yongyue/imgcondl.html
* The program convert, part of the ImageMagick suite of programs can be used provided the program mpeg2encode is in your path. mpeg2encode can be found here http://www.mpeg.org/MSSG/. To make an mpeg file, go 
 
 convert *.png movie.mpeg
If you want to make an animated gif, do
 convert *.png movie.gif