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How do I generate a movie using Mercury?

Solution

High-resolution images are ideal for posters, reports and publications, but sometimes you need to get across a truly three-dimensional structural concept. For this kind of situation, generation of movies can be particularly helpful. To do this in Mercury, go to File in the top-level menu and choose POV-Ray Image... then tick the Generate Animation Frames checkbox before clicking on Render.

 Recommended settings for generation of smooth and effective movies are rotation about the y-axis with 30 or more animation frames.

This will generate a series of frames. These can be combined to create a movie with a package such as ffmpeg – (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/). Please also see http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/MakeMovie.html for more discussions.