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Overview
PyMOL can save videos to formats (.mpg) that can be converted to a movie PDF (will not work with most PDF browser plugins; must be downloaded and viewed with certain viewers liked Adobe Acrobat 9.2+).
Requirements
- PyMOL
- LaTeX (pdflatex)
Get .mpg file from PyMOL
- Save a .mpg file from your video.
You can try this tutorial:
Example movie
LaTeX code
Download Example, and open in acrobat reader: movie PDF
Note, the resolution of the movie, has been cut intentionally to save filesize.
Download Example, and open in acrobat reader: movie PDF High Resolution
- The following LaTeX code saved as "pymol.tex":
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[3D]{movie15}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\title{PyMOL 3D Objects in PDF}
\author{Troels Linnet}
\maketitle
\begin{figure}[!htb]
\centering
\includemovie[
poster,
toolbar, %same as `controls'
text={\small(Click to play movie)}
]{320px}{216px}{movie.mpg}
\caption{A PyMOL movie object embedded in PDF, using mpg format.}
\label{mov:ex3d}
\end{figure}
See movie \ref{mov:ex3d}
\end{document}
LaTeX beamer presentation
Download Example, and open in acrobat reader: beamer movie PDF
Note, the resolution of the movie, has been cut intentionally to save filesize.
Download Example, and open in acrobat reader: beamer movie PDF High Resolution
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[3D]{movie15}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
%% See: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Presentations
%% See: http://www.hartwork.org/beamer-theme-matrix/
\usetheme{Copenhagen}
\usecolortheme{beaver}
\begin{document}
\title{Simple Beamer Class}
\author{Troels Linnet}
\date{\today}
\frame{\titlepage}
\frame{\frametitle{Table of contents}\tableofcontents}
\section{Movie}
\frame{\frametitle{Pymol Movie object}
\begin{figure}[!htb]
\centering
\includemovie[
poster,
toolbar, %same as `controls'
text={\small(Click to play movie)}
]{10cm}{6cm}{movie.mpg}
\caption{A PyMOL movie object embedded in PDF, using mpg format.}
\label{mov:ex3d}
\end{figure}
}
\section{Lists}
\subsection{Lists I}
\frame{\frametitle{Unnumbered lists}
\begin{block}{My bloc}
test of bloc
\end{block}
\begin{itemize}
\item Introduction to \LaTeX
\item Beamer class
\end{itemize}
}
\end{document}
- Create the PDF using LaTeX:
pdflatex pymol.tex