Hi Markus, There is some documentation of powerpoint blank movie problems and how to solve them, but they focus on Windows systems. In case anything is generalizable to the Mac, however, you could follow the two links to Microsoft support documents at the bottom of this page: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html#powerpoint Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng@cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html On Nov 21, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Markus Voehler wrote:
I have recorded a movie of a pdb in chimera with the following command:
movie record supersample 3 . . movie stop movie encode bitrate 6000 mformat avi output ./pol_b_movie.avi
I can import it into ppt (2004, V 11.3.5) on my Mac (OS X 10.4.11) and it plays fine in the editing mode, but when I go to the slideshow and start the movie, there is a blank screen for the duration of the movie. When it is done, it shows the standing slide again. Any idea what might be going on? Also, is there a better way to improve the resolution then setting the bitrate to 6000, 30 f/s? I have tried the supersample 3 option, but this does not seem to make much of a difference in the final movie.
Any input is appreciated. Markus