Putting Text into Movies

From: Jacob Keller
Date: 21 February 2012 15:59
Dear Crystallographers,

is there a good way to put text labels into movies from pymol or
otherwise? It would be helpful for conveying some ideas...

Jacob

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From: Jason Vertrees
Hi Jacob,

> is there a good way to put text labels into movies from pymol or
> otherwise? It would be helpful for conveying some ideas...

Check out the pseudoatom command
(http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Pseudoatom) which is commonly used
as an on-screen placeholder for text. The label command
(http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Label) will also help.

How much text are you looking to add?

Cheers,

-- Jason



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From: Eric Pettersen

On Feb 21, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Jacob Keller wrote:

is there a good way to put text labels into movies from pymol or
otherwise? It would be helpful for conveying some ideas...

As Jason pointed out, PyMOL has some useful facilities for this.  Chimera has a tool for placing standalone text and arrows called 2D Labels.  The arrows and text can be any color and the text can also be various sizes, styles (italics, etc.) and typefaces (serif etc.), all on a per-character basis.  You can place text and arrows interactively with the mouse or via commands.  Text can also be faded in or out as a movie plays/records.

A pretty nice example use of 2D Labels in the "DNA basics" movie on this page: http://crc.nd.edu/index.php/cyberinfrastructure/visualization/80

Chimera home page:  www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera

2D Labels page: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/ContributedSoftware/2dlabels/2dlabels.html

--Eric

                      

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From: Tim Gruene


Hello Jacob,

you may also like one of the many google hits with "mencoder add subtitles".
Tim

On 02/21/2012 04:59 PM, Jacob Keller wrote:
> Dear Crystallographers,
>
> is there a good way to put text labels into movies from pymol or
> otherwise? It would be helpful for conveying some ideas...
>
> Jacob
>

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Dr Tim Gruene