<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 13, 2009, at 8:17 PM, R. Andrew Byrd wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Greetings,<br>I have been trying to use the Morph tool in the production release from summer <br>2008. The tool works very well and allows playing the trajectory in the <br>graphics window. However, when I try to save the file as a movie, it <br>consistently crashes. I am running Win XP SP3, on a Dell M1330 laptop. It has<br>also crashed on a Dell desktop running XP SP3.</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Hi Andy,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I guess I have a few questions. When you "save the file as a movie", are you using File->Record Movie... from the movie-playing interface, or the Movie Recorder tool (in Utilities)? Probably the former (which is what you should use) but I just want to make sure. And when "it crashes" is Chimera completely quitting or are you getting an error dialog? If the latter, you should use the "Report Bug" button in the error dialog to report the bug since that will give us additional info about your system and what Chimera was doing when it crashed.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>If Chimera is completely crashing, you should probably first upgrade to the 1.3 release, which has some fixes specifically for lower-end Windows graphics cards. If that release still crashes, use the Help->Report a Bug... menu item to make a bug report, which will include details about your system as above. I can then give you a few things to try and we can try to replicate your error here in our lab.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Are there special tricks to saving the movie for use in a Powerpoint <br>presentation?</div></blockquote><div><br></div>There are. See: <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html#powerpoint">Making Movies</a><br><br></div>--Eric</body></html>