Mencoder (which comes packaged with Mplayer) is its movie encoder. Mplayer is an award-winning open source movie player. The program has an easy to use graphical interface, making the conversion simple compared to some of the other options available to you. It can read the PNG output stack from Pymol and encode a movie using almost all codecs currently available. To create files with many frames in Ulead add around 150 files as frames at a time.Īvidemux is a great tool to stich your image files together as a movie. Ulead Gif Animator works well although there are many programs to choose from. With skillful use of frame delays during the generation of the Gif it is possible to create pauses to emphasize certain frames. Gif animation gives a good alternative, retaining the original quality and maintaining small file sizes, however it lacks play controls. Quality note: Converting to video generally leads to a loss of quality and inflated file sizes. For learning how to make a movie in the first place, see MovieSchool. This page talks about how to take your export movie frames and turn them into an actual movie.
