Dear Tom,
I use eMovie quite a bit on a mac (Macbook Pro 10.5.6) and think it is
definitely the easiest to use molecular movie software BUT...
1. It was designed for the free PyMol 0.99 and doesn't work so well
with newer versions.
2. It is extremely buggy - crashes, flickering windows, components not
doing what they say they do etc..
So, although PyMol is my favorite picture making software (I used it
to make a front cover of Nature once), it is not so good when it comes
to making movies. PyMol's movies commands are not straight forward and
whilst although eMovie is a great concept to fix this problem, it
fails a bit in its application. It would be fantastic if Warren was
able to incorporate some of the eMovie code in future releases of PyMol!
Simon
On 13 Apr 2009, at 22:30, Thomas S. Leyh, Ph. D. wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to assess the best way to begin making molecular
movies with Pymol. It seems eMovie is higly rated. I understand it
is a Pymol plug-in, however I gave this a run on my PC (Vista) only
to discover, ultimately through Warren, that that approach won't
work, a Mac is required. (This came a surprise since, in in their
TRENDS article, the eMovie author's claim that it runs under
windows.) I have access to an iMac (duo 2 core, OS 10.5), and I
wonder whether this is the preferred path. Further, there is the
issue of which Pymol version to downloaded. Finally, is a Pymol
build with rigimole required - this is a special (expert) build that
requires unix-like, command-line fluency.
Thanks a bunch,
Tom Leyh
<Thomas S. Leyh.vcf>
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