Summary:GIF file with frequency animation

Hi,
 This is the summary for creating animated gif or mpeg files of
 vibrations of molecules from G98's output.
 Hi,
 Guassview and HyperChem can visualize vibrational modes calculated by
 G98, to my knowledge.  But, they can't export the animations to any
 format that common programs, such as Windows MediaPlayer, can load.  In
 fact, I want to create some animated GIF files for some frequencies.  I
 mean if I can capture 4 or 5 pictures from Guassview or HyperChem's
 animation, these GIF files can be created correctly.
 Any advice?  Thanks in advance
 Yubo
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 gOpenMol (available free from Leif Laaksonen) can do this - it will
 write
 MPEGs.  You can also get it to write out a set of bitmap files for each
 frame of your trajectory and then use some program like Paintshop Pro
 (for
 windows) to make animated GIFs.  See the gOpenMol link on my web page
 for a
 tutorial on gOpenMol that includes instructions on downloading.
 Prof. Scott L. Anderson
 Department of Chemistry
 University of Utah
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 GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
 will create animated gif files for you
 (and much, much more). GIMP is free, and is available for both
 windows, and unix platforms.
 Dr. Serguei Patchkovskii
 Tel: +1-(613)-991-2719
 Fax: +1-(613)-947-2838
 E-mail: Serguei.Patchkovskii (+ at +) nrc.ca
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 Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
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 I have done this sort of thing with molekel and paintshop pro.  molekel
 can
 save an image as a .gif file; paintshop can string these together to
 make
 and nimated .gif file.  I have attached an example of this: an animation
 that shows the decomposition of carbonic acid.  This is the result of an
 IRC calculation in gaussian.
 Steve
 Steve Williams
 A. R. Smith Department of Chemistry
 Appalachian State University
 Boone, NC 28608
 USA
 828-262-2965
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 I looked at that too. I did not find an easy solution. What I do is
 install
 X-win (eg from www.starnet.com-you: they give a trial version and then
 you
 have to buy a license, but I heard there might be a crack), then install
 molden (http://www.caos.kun.nl/~schaft/molden/molden.html) on my
 windows-pc
 and show the vibration. A second option is to let molden make a gif file
 > from every screen update while you visualise a vibration. All these
 files
 can then be grouped into a .mov file (I use a program that comes with
 coreldraw). A third option is to use a screen grabbing utility. I know
 my
 collegue uses this on a silicon graphics O2-I don't know if it available
 for your installation.
 I hope this help. If you come up with a better solution I would be
 interested to hear about it!
 Best Regards,
 Mark Saeys
 Laboratory for Petrochemical Engineering
 Ghent University
 Krijgslaan 281 (S5)
 B9000 Gent
 Belgium
 tel: .32.(0)9.264.56.78
 fax: .32.(0)9.264.49.99
 http://lptnt01.rug.ac.be/chemical.engineering
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 I don't use Windows much at all, but I'd expect there are any number
 of screen-capture or screenshot programs available. Couldn't you use
 these to take a shot of each frame and then import them into a program
 for a GIF animation? Certainly not as nice as being able to save frames
 e.g.:
 molecule-frame1.gif
 molecule-frame2.gif ...
 I certainly know Linux and MacOS have programs that will capture the
 graphics in a particular window, so Windows should also have them.
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 perhaps one idea. Molden is able to write a gif per screen update. So
 you
 can animate and write gifs at the same time. With common grafic programs
 it should be able to merge the single files to an animated
 gif. Perhaps
 there is a similar way in gv and Hyperchem ....
 Hope this helps
 Alex
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 An example of an animated gif-file created this way can be seen on
 this web-page:
 http://Virgil.ruc.dk/kurser/KemFys2/adm_opg.htm
 It shows the "bell-clapper" vibration of trithiapentalene,
 and was created by Jens Peter Jensen and Morten Langgaard by capturing
 images
 > from HyperChem's vibrational mode animation.
 Yours, Jens >--<
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 molden and gifmoviegear
 http://www.caos.kun.nl/~schaft/molden/molden.html
 http://www.gamani.com/
 -Phil Matz
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 Hi Yubo,
 There is some soft - known as video grabbers - which is capabele to take
 the snapshots from your monitor, while vibratin animations play.
 Better way  - in my mind - use gOpenmol. There is option to export
 normal modes vibrations into MPEG, via making TGA files. Later you can
 convert TGA to GIF files for each frame. Then you can bring all
 frames together in any GIF animation sotware (there is sharaware as
 well). That's all.
 Good luck - I think it'll help you :-)
 Arturas
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