Starting ADFmovie

If you have installed the ADF package correctly, the ADFmovie is located in $ADFBIN.

If $ADFBIN is included in your PATH environment variable, you can start the ADFmovie program with the following command:

adfmovie [filename] [-loop] [-nobondupdates]

The filename is optional. ADFmovie handles ADFmovie files (.amv) and ADF logfiles (.logfile), both types are text files, and the ADF binary TAPE21 files (.t21).
If the -loop command line option is chosen, ADFmovie will display the series of the geometries in the specified file over and over again. This is used, for example, by ADFspectra to visualize normal modes.
The -nobondupdates option prevents ADFmovie to guess the bonds each frame. This makes the performance much better, and is normally used when displaying normal modes.

There is a second possibility to start ADFmovie if one of the GUI modules has already been started. All ADF-GUI modules have the SCM menu on the left-hand side, on most systems represented by a small SCM logo. Using this SCM menu, ADFmovie can be started by selecting the 'Movie' command.