Re: [ccp4bb]: Movies and Powerpoint; again

[Paul Hubbard <phubbard@post.its.mcw.edu>]

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By the way - there isn't any loss in resolution (at least in my case).
Try
using MolRay to generate the animated gif.

AGS

Wulf Blankenfeldt wrote:

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> Dear all,
>
> sorry for bringing this topic up again. I want to include a view
movies in a
> PowerPoint-presentation and have a view practical questions. The route
I am
> following at the moment is:
>
> Bobscript --> PovRay --> Mediaconvert (avi-files) --> PowerPoint.
>
> First, I run into the following problem: While my little animation
(ribbons
> rotating 360 degrees around y) plays fine in Mediaplayer, PowerPoint
(in
> Windows2000) seems to take the liberty to change resolution as soon as
it
> starts playing (to the worse, of course). Can I stop this? Could this
have
> to do with some kind of stupid screen-resolution setting as a "clever"

> optimisation for quicker playing?
>
> Second and more specific: How big should my rotation steps be (using 3

> degrees at the moment, wonder if I could go coarser)? What should my
> resolution be (use 600*600 at the moment with anti-aliasing etc,
wonder if I
> should switch all that of if I can't get PowerPoint to behave itself)?
How
> many frames per second should I do (18 or 25 like on my dad's old
Super-8
> film camera or is less ok?)? I want something that rotates quite
slowly not
> to make people in the audience nervous...
>
> I have also tried animated gifs but they look quite sh.... in
PowerPoint,
> again losing resolution.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Wulf
>
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