Help:Making animations for Powerpoint

Any molecular scene in Proteopedia (or any Jmol website) can be converted to a rocking or spinning animation for presentations, such as Microsoft Powerpoint, free Google Slides, or free Libre Office.

Demonstration ExamplesDemonstration Examples

• In Google Slides
• Download in Microsoft Powerpoint

LimitationsLimitations

This method will make a presentation-ready rocking or spinning animation of a fixed molecular scene. See examples linked above. It will not convert complex Jmol animations such as Morphs or those in Molecular Playground/HIV Protease Inhibitor and Molecular Playground/Tamiflu into presentation-ready animations. However, morphs can be made presentation-ready using Polyview-3D. An example is the last slide in this downloadable Powerpoint demonstration of Polyview-3D animations.

MethodMethod

Display the desired molecular scene. Then:

1. Right click near the top of JSmol to open the JSmol menu. Click on Console.



2. Enter write filename.pngj (where "filename" is something descriptive) in the lower part of the yellow-framed JSmol Console box that opens. Be sure to include j as the last character of pngj.

File:Jsmol-console-write-pngj.png

3. Click OK in the image save dialog. The file will be saved in the location specified in the preferences of the browser you are using.

File:Image-save-dialog.png

4. Go to FirstGlance in Jmol. Check "Use Java" if you have Java installed. Using Java will generate animations more than ten times faster. If you are using Java, Firefox is recommended. We do not recommend Internet Explorer because it often saves a defective (empty, zero bytes) file.
5. Display any molecule in FirstGlance (1d66 is fine).
6. Drag the PNGJ file and drop it into JSmol/Jmol_S in FirstGlance. The molecular scene from Proteopedia should appear in less than one minute.
7. Click on Save Image or Animation for Powerpoint, and choose Save Animation.



8. Follow the instructions that appear in the lower left panel of FirstGlance to save your animation GIF file.
9. Drag the saved GIF file and drop it into a slide in your presentation.

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