AMBER Archive (2005)

Subject: Re: AMBER: Making movie from AMBER trajectory

From: caoch_at_cherry.bio.titech.ac.jp
Date: Mon Nov 07 2005 - 20:09:16 CST

Dear Varsh:

  One sure way to creat a movie is
1, using Ptraj to creat a series of pdb files
2, using VMD interface to convert these pdb files to image files
3, using some movie maker programme to connect these image files to a
movie

 it will take you some time but is a reliable method

                                               caoch
> Dear Carlos,
> I loaded my topology file and then my trajectory file.
> Then i went under >Extension (in VMD) > movie maker.
> It started creating pictures for all frame and started
> saving in specified directory. It was taking too much
> of time to do that. But Later when i checked the
> saving directory nothing was there.
> I gues that i just don't know the proper way.
>
> What do you mean by combining snapshots by using
> another program??? i don't have any other program.
>
> Ross tutorial9 says that it should work by just
> clicking makemovie option.
>
> Please help me...
> Thanks
>
> --- Carlos Simmerling
> <carlos.simmerling_at_stonybrook.edu> wrote:
>
> > you'll need to be more specific. VMD does work for
> > movies but
> > I don't know if you use the same method that works
> > for me.
> > Please tell us which options you chose, and exactly
> > what
> > happens when "everything was gone". What do you
> > mean?
> > When does that happen, inside vmd or in the program
> > that you
> > use to combine the snapshots?
> >
> > Varsha Goyal wrote:
> >
> > >Hello,
> > >I got my trajectory file with 1000 frames in it now
> > i
> > >want to create movie. I was using VMD but it
> > creates
> > >pictures for all frames and then everything was
> > gone.
> > >Please help me !!!!!
> > >Thanks,
> > >Varsha
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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