[Chimera-users] Movie recording does not stop

[Thomas Goddard]

Hi Jean-Paul,

   Your use of the wait command with no frame count in this script is 
not right.  Wait without a frame count waits until there is no motion 
before going on to the next command.

	http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/wait.html

So if you have motion the script will not go anywhere (until you type 
freeze) as you observe.  If you don't have motion, each transparency 
change should take one frame because the volume command causes one frame 
to elapse (and the waits do nothing).

   So your problem looks like improper use of wait.

	Tom

Jean-Paul Armache wrote:
> Hello Sir,
> 
> I know about volume undisplay. I will try to tell you exactly what happens.
> 
> I have 2 pdbs loaded, they are displayed. I generated density maps from 
> them. I keep them displayed, however, before running the script I set 
> them to 1.0 transparency.
> When I start the script, the same screen stays, there is no change. 
> There is no change in the transparency level and if I check the 
> intermediate image files, they are all the
> same. Now, if I write in the command line "freeze" and  "movie stop", 
> the screen begins to change again and all the things one would like to 
> see start to unravel.
> I tried both Aqua version and X11 version. I have Macbook Pro v. 2008, 
> 2.6 GHz Intel Core Duo Penryn, 4 GB of RAM, 512 MB on the graphic card 
> (NVIDIA). As
> for the software, I have the latest Leopard, 10.5.4.
> Below is this script that does absolutely nothing :/
> 
> movie record
> 
> volume #8 transparency 0.95
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.9
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.85
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.8
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.75
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.7
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.65
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.6
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.55
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.5
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.45
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.4
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.35
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.3
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.25
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.2
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.15
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.1
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.05
> wait
> volume #8 transparency 0.0
> wait
> 
> 
> 
> movie stop
> 
> movie encode bitrate 1200 mformat avi output 
> /Users/jean-paularmache/Desktop/pdbs_final2.avi
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jean-Paul Armache