AMBER Archive (2007)

Subject: Re: AMBER: Making movies in VMD

From: rdauria_at_uci.edu
Date: Wed Dec 05 2007 - 23:20:12 CST

Hello Lili,

I gather that you are on a windows machine. Just install videomach (look
at http://www.gromada.com/).

Raffaella.

On Wed, December 5, 2007 4:57 pm, Lili Peng 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
>

________________________________
Raffaella D'Auria, PhD
Department of Chemistry
3218 Natural Sciences 1
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, 92697-2025
ph. n.: 949-824-9921
e_mail: rdauria_at_uci.edu
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