[3dem] [ccpem] Converting MRC to tiff

[Marin van Heel]

Dear Yehuda Halfon

The em2em converter (Image-Science.de) should do the trick but storing 
(4-bit/8-bit?) MRC movies in tiff is not a good idea: very few programs 
can handle tiff stacks. Moreover if the TIFFs are not compressed you 
will not necessarily win any space. You are probably best off using a 
standard loss-less compression program ("zip"), and convert them back 
when you need it again. You must always keep your original raw data 
"forever" in a loss-less form.

Marin van Heel


On 03/06/2018 06:02, Yehuda Halfon wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> We have a bunch of MRC movie files the are eating at out storage, and 
> since more are coming I was wondering if there is a good way to 
> convert them into tiff to save space?
>
> I know that the best way is to save them directly as tif from EPU/ 
> serialEM and that is what we will to in the future. But we need to 
> find a solution to the ones we have now.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yehuda Halfon
>
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