Re: [ccp4bb]: Movies for PowerPoints.

[Edward Berry <eaberry@lbl.gov>]

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Tony Crofts (mailto:a-crofts@uiuc.edu) recently prepared the same sequence as 
an animated gif and an avi movie, from the original chime (~rasmol) script
for his cytochrome bc1 web page: 

gif:   http://www.life.uiuc.edu/crofts/bc-complex_site/etp-model_annotated.html
avi:   http://www.life.uiuc.edu/crofts/bc-complex_site/etp-model_annotated.avi
chime: http://www.life.uiuc.edu/crofts/bc1_in_chime/etp_model_struc.html

The gif is 4 MB as compared to almost 7 for the avi, and the gif starts
playing while it is still loading, so seems much faster, at least for a web page.
The CHIME presentation is just the pdb files and some script, so less than 
1 MB in this case, but I don't know if you could run chime inside 
powerpoint.  I'm sure Tony would be glad to tell you how he made the avi.



Flip Hoedemaeker wrote:
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> Hi Graeme,
> 
> The easiest way is using software like gifsicle
> (http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/) or comparable software to combine several
> ...gif files into one animated gif. You have to manually rotate your structure
> say 5-10? each time and save a .gif image afterwards for input into
> gifsicle.
> 
> Alternatively, you can use video grabbing software. I've tried a few demos
> available online, but the result usually is not better than with animated
> gifs. Powerpoint takes .avi videos, e.g. movies made with a CCD camera are
> easy to integrate into a presentation. If you find molecular graphics
> software that saves .avi files, please let me know!
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Flip
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> Subject: [ccp4bb]: Movies for PowerPoints.
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> Hello all,
> 
> I thought someone had recently enquired about how to make movies of
> rotating structures for importing into PowerPoint. I've searched the ccp4
> archives but can't find the Q/A.
> 
> So, what programs do people use to do this?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Graeme
> 
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