From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Wed Apr 22 13:09:00 2009
From: "Jerome Kieffer jerome.Kieffer(~)terre-adelie.org" <owner-chemistry .. server.ccl.net>
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Subject: CCL:G: Making movies from molecular vibrations easily
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:26:56 +0200
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Sent to CCL by: Jerome Kieffer [jerome.Kieffer..terre-adelie.org]

> I've been searching through the web and through the archives but I
> couldn't find a decent solution for making a movie of a molecular
> vibration one gets from a frequency calculation with Gaussian or
> Turbomole. While Gaussview, Molden, Molekel and Jmol (no imaginary
> modes, as it seems!), are able to display the vibrations, there is no
> easy option to create, say an animated GIF (with transparency!), or an MP=
EG.
> How do you go about animating molecular vibrations for insertion into a
> presentation? I'd appreciate any help (preferably, but not limited to
> linux/OSS solutions)!


Try Gabedit it exports png (even with transparency) from Gaussian Freq
calculation, then use mencoder with something like :
mencoder "mf://anim*.png" -mf type=3Dpng:fps=3D25 -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
vcodec=3Dmsmpeg4v2 -o film.avi

HTH

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