[Chimera-users] Problem recording raytraced movie

[Tom Goddard]

maya shcushan wrote:
> Dear Tom,
> Thanks, this was very helpful...
> I have a new question: I want to make a simple movie in which the molecule
> rotates. Using the commands script I found on the internet, the movie is of
> very low quality (attached). Moreover, running it with windows media player
> shows the opening in the script, embedded in the movie. This were the
> commands:
>
> "movie record 
> turn y 3 150
> wait 150
> movie encode mformat avi output spin.avi bitrate 4000"
>
> I want to record the same movie in good quality, like the pictures I get
> with pov-raying. I  tried running: 
> "movie record raytrace true
> turn y 3 150
> wait 150
> movie encode mformat avi output spin.avi bitrate 4000"
> But it falls all the time.
>
> I looked in the internet for scripts but didn't find an answer. Can you
> please help me to create a simple script in which the molecule rotates and
> presented in ray-tracing and high quality?
>
> Thanksm
> Maya
>
>   

Hi Maya,

  In Chimera 1.3 before the movie encode command you need the command 
"movie stop".

movie record raytrace true
turn y 3 150
wait 150
movie stop
movie encode mformat avi output spin.avi bitrate 4000

Otherwise it keeps on recording frames forever.  In Chimera 1.4 (daily 
builds) this is unnecessary and your original script works correctly 
because in 1.4 movie encode does a movie stop implicitly.

    Tom