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    <p>It turns out it was easy to add.  So APNG support is in both the
      Chimera and ChimeraX daily builds.</p>
    <p>    -- Greg<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/7/2021 9:52 AM, Tom Goddard via
      Chimera-users wrote:<br>
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      Also Chimera includes ffmpeg so you could have Chimera save your
      move and h.264 and then just use the Chimera ffmpeg from the
      command-line to convert that to animated png.  For instance, here
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      <div class="">it says the following works<br class="">
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          <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ffmpeg
            -i input.mp4 output.apng</div>
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          <div class="">Chimera 1.15 ffmpeg on Mac is here</div>
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          <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Chimera-1.15.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ffmpeg</div>
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          <div class=""> Tom</div>
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                <div class="">On Dec 6, 2021, at 9:32 PM, Greg Couch via
                  Chimera-users <<a
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                    <p class="">Chimera uses ffmpeg to encode movie
                      files.  Searching online, it appears that ffmpeg
                      supports .png files for output, which are APNG
                      files.  So it should possible to add that as an
                      output format.  Currently, we are only making bug
                      fixes for Chimera, so if we add this feature, it
                      would be for ChimeraX.  That said, the movie
                      encoding support code in ChimeraX is very similar
                      to Chimera's.  So it looks like it would be easy
                      to backport.  I'll create a ChimeraX ticket on
                      your behalf so you'll be notified when it is added
                      to ChimeraX.</p>
                    <p class="">    -- Greg</p>
                    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/6/2021 8:21 PM,
                      Frank Irby via Chimera-users wrote:<br class="">
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                      I produce high quality Animated PNG files and it
                      takes a lot of juggling different computers to
                      accomplish.
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                        class="">Is there a way to simply chose APNG
                        from the movie recorder output pulldown menue?</div>
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                        class="">Would there be a plug in for that?</div>
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                        class="">My animations can be found at:</div>
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                          href="https://www.deviantart.com/mandelscape/gallery/24158715/molecular"
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                          class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.deviantart.com/mandelscape/gallery/24158715/molecular</a></div>
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                        class="">Thank you <br class="">
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