Molecule Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - 1.01, by Dr. Herong Yang
"movie.produce" - Export Movie File in MPEG Format
This section provides a tutorial on how to export movie to a MPEG file using the 'movie.produce' command in PyMol.
If you are happy with your movie frame set, you can export it to file in MPEG format using the "movie.produce" command.
For example, the following command plays and exports the current movie frame set a PMEG file called Rolling-Camera-Movie.mpg:
PyMOL>@Build-Rolling-Camera-Movie.pml ... PyMOL>movie.produce Rolling-Camera-Movie.mpg using encoder "mpeg_encode" Movie: frame 1 of 270, 0.04 sec. (0:00:11 - 0:00:11 to go). Movie: frame 2 of 270, 0.03 sec. (0:00:07 - 0:00:09 to go). Movie: frame 3 of 270, 0.03 sec. (0:00:08 - 0:00:09 to go). Movie: frame 4 of 270, 0.03 sec. (0:00:08 - 0:00:09 to go). Movie: frame 5 of 270, 0.03 sec. (0:00:08 - 0:00:08 to go). Movie: frame 6 of 270, 0.03 sec. (0:00:08 - 0:00:08 to go). ... Movie: frame 269 of 270, 0.03 sec. (0:00:00 - 0:00:00 to go). Movie: frame 270 of 270, 0.03 sec. (0:00:00 - 0:00:00 to go). produce: creating 'Rolling-Camera-Movie.mpg' (in background)... please wait ... produce: 126976 bytes written... produce: 651264 bytes written... produce: 1175552 bytes written... produce: finished.
Now you can play the movie stored in Rolling-Camera-Movie.mpg with any MPEG player app.
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