Hi Matt, Chimera uses ffmpeg to encode a series of images into a movie. ffmpeg is included with Chimera in the "bin" directory. If you record a movie in Chimera using the "movie" command or "Movie Recorder" dialog, the command used to encode the movie is reported in the reply log (Favorites menu). Here's an example: /Users/goddard/chimera/chimera-twain-AGL/install/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ffmpeg -r 25 -i /var/folders/+g/+gO21g+SFqCxNgLVgIvElk+++TM/-Tmp-/chimovie_YZ1R-%05d.ppm -y -f mov -b 2000 -bufsize 200 /Users/goddard/chimera_movie.mov The "-r" option gives playback frame rate in frames per second. The -i gives the input image files. The "%05d" in that specification represents the 5 digit image number in the file name (e.g. image-%05d.jpg represents image-00000.jpg, image-00001.jpg, image-00002.jpg, ...) The "-f" is the output format (mov = quicktime). The "-b" gives bit rate it kilobits/second which determines quality versus file size. You can invoke ffmpeg directly from a terminal window on Mac or Linux without starting Chimera. For more options search for ffmpeg on the web. Tom Matthew Dougherty wrote:
One of the people in my lab has a series of images that they want to turn into MPEG's
Because they are familiar with Chimera, I would like to solve their problem using Chimera rather than train them on FCP.
Is there a way to do this either with chimera commands or developing a short python script?
thanks, Matt _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users