[Chimera-users] Chimera movie

[Elaine Meng]

On Jun 18, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Vladimir Kuznetsov wrote:

> Hi Elaine,
> I'm trying to make a movie using Chimera. The basic outline is as follows: a homo-dimer is dissociating into monomers, then focus on one of the monomers rearranging into a compact form. I think I could record the dissociation step with "savepos/fly" option, and morphing works for the second step. Is it possible to stitch them together for a single QuickTime file?
> Thank you for your time,
> Vlad Kuznetsov
> (Sacchettini lab, Texas A&M University)   

Hi Vlad,
Instead of combining two movie files into one movie file (it must be possible, but I don't have experience with that), I would just do everything in one Chimera movie content script.  You could either do the savepos and morphing in the same or a different script before starting recording, or do it interactively and save the session.  Then restore session if you had saved a session, and execute your recording script, in which you can use fly and other movement commands (move, turn, ...) as well as the coordset command to play the morph.

<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html>

There is an example movie and associated Chimera script in the Animation Gallery, see "Ball-and-socket motion" currently the 6th one down:

<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/animations/animations.html>

I cc'd chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu since this answer might help others (it's generally better to send questions there than to me directly, unless you are including private data).

Good luck with making a beautiful movie!  I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. 
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco