Well, I made a search and saw that the code for creating movies between 2 views 
was discussed on this list in December 2008 : 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=ba9c0bd60812040557y45242054ufe27b46045801a4d%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=jmol-users
The thread was : Letting Jmol make a movie between two views

Paul

Le 4 janv. 2012 à 12:07, Bob Hanson a écrit :

> write frames
> 
> Or if you need to you can write a little looping script to do that. Or write 
> a "command" yourself. Jmol's function calls can now look like commands 
> 
> Sent from my stupid iphone
> 
> On Jan 3, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Paul Pillot <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> you can make a movie from separate png files using the package ffmpeg 
>> (http://ffmpeg.org/)
>> I created a simple animation from a pov file, rendered in PNG image format 
>> from different angles to simulate a rotation. It would be exactly the same 
>> principle with png files created by Jmol. 
>> Also, it might be useful to know that Bob wrote somewhere (but I can't find 
>> where !) in the Jmol documentation a function to write sequential png files 
>> in a trajectory (by "splitting" a quaternion in the specified number of 
>> frames from what I understood)
>> (I realized that ffmpeg is the package used by the molecular software 
>> chimera to create mov files from png in their animation tool.)
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> Le 3 janv. 2012 à 03:26, Eric Martz a écrit :
>> 
>>> If someone has experience generating true movies from Jmol (movies 
>>> that will play in a web browser, or at least will play on both 
>>> Windows and Macs without special software) I would appreciate advice.
>>> 
>>> I think the idea is to save a series of jpg files from a Jmol script. 
>>> The jpg files are the frames of a movie. One then assembles the jpg 
>>> files into some sort of movie (mpg?) file. How? What software is 
>>> easiest for the assembly, to control the speed of the movie, etc.?
>>> 
>>> I have experience using RasMol scripts to save a series of gif files, 
>>> and assembling those into a multi-gif "movie" that plays in all web 
>>> browsers. As far as I can see, Jmol cannot write gif files.
>>> 
>>> I see that Jmol's "write image" command can save several variations 
>>> on png image format and ppm format. I don't know if any of those are 
>>> advantageous for assembling a movie.
>>> 
>>> Thanks, -Eric
>>> 
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