Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook - Second Edition

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The YouTube video was generated using ffmpeg on Linux at 15 frames per second, as follows:

ffmpeg -r 15 -f image2 -start_number 1 -i "p53_1tup%04d.png" example.mp4

There are plenty of applications being used to generate videos from images. PyMOL can generate an MPEG, but this means we have to install extra libraries.

PyMOL was created to be used interactively from its console (which can be extended in Python). Using it the other way around (importing from Python with no GUI) can be complicated and frustrating; PyMOL starts a separate thread to render images that work asynchronously.

For example, this means that your code may be in a different position from where the renderer is. I have put another script called PyMol_Intro.py ...