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Hi Camila,<br>
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The command to rotate your models smoothly is called "turn".
Here's an example sequence of commands that rotates about the screen
vertical axis in 3 degree steps for 120 steps (total of 360
degrees), waits for that rotation to finish, then writes the movie
file m2.mov to your desktop.<br>
<br>
movie record ; turn y 3 120 ; wait 120 ; movie encode output
~/Desktop/m2.mov<br>
<br>
These 4 commands separated by semicolons can be typed as one command
to the Chimera command-line (menu Favorites / Command-line). More
commonly I'd put the 4 commands in a file, say movie.cmd, with one
command on each line (no semi-colons) and just open that file in
Chimera (File / Open...) to record the movie. Putting the commands
in a file gives you more flexibility when you want to add more fancy
motions or color changes by adding additional commands.<br>
<br>
Take a look at the Chimera movie making tutorial for ideas of
additional useful commands<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/tutorials/movies09/moviemaking.html">http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/tutorials/movies09/moviemaking.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
<br>
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Camilla wrote:
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>My name is Camilla and I'm an undergrad student at UNC-CH.
I've been using Chimera to create models of fibrinogen
polymerization. I discovered that I could make movies of
my models to be able to see them from all views. However, my
videos are very choppy and since I rotate the model by mouse,
the movies are very poorly made. Is there a specific command I
could use where I can get the model to rotate 360 degrees by
itself to make this movie more smooth and to be able to still
see the model all the way around one axis?</div>
<div><br>
Thank you,</div>
<div>Camilla</div>
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