Biomovies
Brief description
Documentation for Biomovies, the cross-platform 3D biological structure video editor. This cross-platform, open-source software allows the creation of movies starting from a 3D biological structure file such as a PDB or a MMCIF file. Additionally, the application accepts trajectories coupled with its corresponding topology. The accepted trajectory formats are NETCDF, XTC and DCD.
Thanks to its simplicity and the intuitive interface, users can build videos easily and quickly. The application allows the creation of low resolution and HD videos as well as animated GIF images.
The projects can be saved into .biomovies files for the sake of sharing or editing them later. Templates can be exported too, allowing to apply the same edition to different biological structures.
This is a non-profit experimental software in its Beta version, so be aware that some bugs can happen during the execution. Please save your projects as often as you can and let us know if some bug is found.
Visit the official website for watching demonstration videos and tutorials.
Demo
Visit the website gallery for seeing demos.
Documentation & help
All the documentation is accessible through Read the Docs.
Software / Hardware requirements
macOS: Mac OSX 10.12+ supported, 16GB of RAM recommended
Linux: Ubuntu 18.04 or greater, 16GB of RAM recommended
Windows: Windows 10, 16GB of RAM recommended
Installation
Please take a look at the installation section in this same documentation.
Features
Though we have put all our effort in making Biomovies a fully cross-platform software, there are a few minor features not available in some of the operating systems:
Feature | macOS | Ubuntu | Windows
Create projects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓
Run trajectories | ✓ | ✓ | ✓
Export templates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓
Create preview videos | ✓ | ✓ | ✓
Create HD videos | ✓ | ✓ | ✓
Create animated GIFs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓
Dock menu / JumpList | ✓ | × | ✓
Open recent projects | ✓ | × | ×
Technology
This project has been built using Vue JS on top of Electron JS , using the PrimeVue components library to enhance the user experience.
Acknowledgements
This project has been developed on top of different JavaScript libraries:
Copyright & licensing
This software has been developed by the MMB group at the IRB Barcelona .
© 2023 Institute for Research in Biomedicine
Licensed under the GPL-3.0 license