Ask somebody with a Mac to convert your .mov into avi would be an option.
But perhaps you can find something useful under the following link:
www.versiontracker.com select Windows and search for something like
movie generator, merge images etc.
On Mac you can used e.g. Framed if you are not willing to pay the few
dollars for QT Pro.
Very stupid question, does Windows Powerpoint not support QT ? Or is it
only because you are using H.264 codecs ? a regular mpeg2 movie should
also work on a Windows based system.
Juergen
P.S. perhaps install the latest QT on your PC (it's free, send a fake
email if you don't want their email announcements)
Ibrahim M. Moustafa wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to make a movie for a powerpoint presentation but going
through some problems.
I can make the frames in Pymol, so I have the series of .png files;
no problem in that. The problem is to get a movie (.avi) so it can be
inserted into the powerpoint.
Googling showed a nice thread in ccp4bb and it is really helpful;
but still can't make what I want exactly.
I can make a movie.mov which can be played by Quicktime or
realplayer; however, I don't like the way of playing the movie using
other program during the presentation! I want the movie to play in the
same slide, the case when you insert a movie, which can be played by
the windows media player, into the powerpoint.
Making the movie using the windows movie maker is not nice (slow,
sluggish!....may be there are ways to make it nicer! which I dunno!).
Then I installed Mencoder and issued the command:
mencoder mf://*.png type=png -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=9000
I tried various vcodec= values. I still unable to insert the .avi
into the powerpoint. Windows media player cannot open the file either!
I think there is something missing here!! I'd be appreciated if
anyone can share his/her experience in making a movie that will play
as part of the slide in the powerpoint on a PC laptop.
P.S. I know that there might be other ways and a lot of options like
CCP4mg..etc. But I don't want to spend time making the figures again.
I already have the figures done in Pymol.
thanks for your help in advance.
thanks,
Ibrhaim
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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept.
201 Althouse Lab., Uinversity Park
Pennsylvania State University, PA16802
Tel. (814)863-8703
Fax. (814)865-7927
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University of Washington
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