AMBER Archive (2007)

Subject: Re: AMBER: Making movies in VMD

From: Vijay Singh (vijayratan.singh_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2007 - 19:25:26 CST

iam no expert but, the way i did was -

follow the instruction
    1) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/

and download from
    2) http://www.gromada.com/videomach.html

On Dec 5, 2007 7:57 PM, Lili Peng <lilipeng_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have a question regarding making movies in VMD. I want to make an
> animation of my simulation using the following steps:
> > 1) Opened VMD
> > 2) Loaded .top and mdcrd files.
> > 3) From VMD Main, went to Extensions --> Movie Maker --> VMD Movie
> > Generator.
> > 4) Set the appropriate working directory and named the movie.
> > 5) Used default Movie Settings as "Trajectory" and Format of ".MPEG"
> > 6) Selected "Make Movie"
>
> > The progress was successful until I reached stage 7, when I received the
> > popup error "Could not locate 'videomach.exe'. Description: VideoMach
> > audio/video builder and converter. would you like to specify its path?"
>
> >
> > I did a thorough search for this videomach.exe file on my hard drive but
> > nothing came up. I also reinstalled VMD and there was no luck in that
> > either. The thing is, I have all of the bitmap files (all 240 of them)
> in
> > my specified working directory. I just need an executable program to
> link
> > all the bitmaps together in one continuous movie
> file.
>
> Any suggestions on how to rectify this problem would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Lili
>
> --
> Lili X. Peng
> Graduate Student Researcher
> PI: Prof. David Gough
> UCSD Department of Bioengineering
> Email: lpeng_at_ucsd.edu
>

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