#Vmd movie rotate and trajectory full#
#Vmd movie rotate and trajectory plus#

Enter the following three lines at the prompt: profile: No such file or directory, the file does not exist and you must create it. Enter the following three lines at the prompt:ī) if it returns ls.

Do not type 'cntrl-D'!Ī) if it lists the file, it exists, and you will append to it.

#Vmd movie rotate and trajectory plus#

Please note' ' -D' means press the > key plus on your keyboard. If you have it, you will append a line to it. You may have a file called '.profile' in ~/ (home directory). now you have to tell your terminal/shell/VMD where to find it.

#Vmd movie rotate and trajectory full#

You can run this program by giving the full path: ~/bin/ffmpeg however VMD must be able to find it too.make the program file run-able: chmod 755 ~/bin/ffmpeg.move the ffmpeg binary (program) there (this assumes that it went to your 'Downloads' directory): mv ~/Downloads/ffmpeg ~/bin.Users/yourname/bin (you may also refer to this as '~/bin'). make a directory to store this and other programs.(remember, what you enter into the terminal is in red ) Make sure to quit VMD before you do this. Download the ffmpeg binary, and follow these steps in a terminal window (not tkcon!) in order to get it to work. The best way to make a good-looking movie is to select 'MPEG-2 NTSC DVD ( ffmpeg ). This is the most hassle to work out, as the defaults really leave a lot to be desired. In fact, this has recently been re-written to use the computer's GPU, which really speeds things up. (Under OS X and UNIX (linux), the options show below are available.) Generally, “ Internal Tachyon ” is the easiest to use. This is the least desirable option, as you must leave the VMD window on top, and uncovered by other windows. “ Snapshot ” uses a screen grab of the VMD window. The first pull-down sets the rendering engine. You should set this to a directory you can find easily, both to delete any leftover files, and so you can actually find your movie! “Set working directory” dictates where both the finished movie and the temporary render files are written. Generally, we won’t change the “ Movie Duration ” setting at all. Take a few minutes to make sure you scene is the way you want it before you adjust any Movie Maker settings. It is easy to fix these things using the main VMD window rather than the Movie plugin itself. What you must do however, is set up your trajectory (representations, resolution, speed, etc) before you start making movies. Luckily, this plugin is very easy to use. The original documentation for this plugin is here.