[Chimera-users] A question about MD movie

[Sherry Wang]

Hi Elaine,

It worked well. Thank you very much!

Sherry

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Shu-Ying Sherry Wang, Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
National Cheng Kung University
1 University Road
Tainan, Taiwan 701

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On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> Hi Sherry,
> Yes, you can make a movie with simultaneous playbacks of multiple
> trajectories, but you would generally need to use a command script because
> it would be too hard to synchronize them yourself using the MD Movie
> dialogs.
>
> You could open and load the trajectories the normal, interactive way, and
> position and display them how you like.  Then with the Chimera command
> script you could play them by using a “coordset” command for each
> trajectory model, for example:
>
> coordset #0 1,100; coordset #1 1,100
>
> Once you get the script showing what you want, you can add the
> movie-recording commands to it.
>
> For my mini-test I opened two NMR structures (1plx and 1g1p)  as PDB
> single-file trajectories (models #0 and #1) and opened a plain-text command
> file named test.com containing these lines:
>
> movie record
> coordset #0 1,18; coordset #1 1,18; wait 18
> movie encode output ~/Desktop/test.mov
>
> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/coordset.html>
> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/movie.html>
> <
> http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html#moviecommands
> >
>
> … of course, your script could also do other things, like rotating,
> showing text (2D labels), etc.
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>
> On Oct 30, 2014, at 12:18 AM, Sherry Wang <sherry523 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Is it possible to to record a MD movie that combines several dcd files
> playing simultaneously, not sequentially?
> > Thanks.
> > Sherry Wang
> >
> > ********************************************************
> > Shu-Ying Sherry Wang, Associate Professor
> > Department of Microbiology and Immunology
> > National Cheng Kung University
> > 1 University Road
> > Tainan, Taiwan 701
>
>
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