<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Aug 14, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Christine Deillon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi Eric,</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">I try to save a movie of a collagen molecule (cylinder shape)</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">just moving around its major axis (along the molecule) for about</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">15 secondes, then I would like to play the movie in the microsoft power point program</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">is it possible to do that with chimera?</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Christine</font></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Hi Christine,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Yes, absolutely you can do that. There is a Chimera tutorial that covers movie-making in good detail here:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/tutorials/movies08/moviemaking.html">Movie Making in Chimera</a></div><br><div>The "Spin Movie" section of the tutorial is almost exactly what you are asking for.</div><div><br></div><div>Issues with embedding movies into PowerPoint are at the very end of the Movie Recorder documentation page:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html%23powerpoint">problems in PowerPoint</a></div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> Eric Pettersen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></div></div></div><br><div></div></div></body></html>