[Chimera-users] movie recording

[Elaine Meng]

Silly me, I actually forgot that in Chimera, you can save and restore scenes that include much more than just the position.  See the “scene” command:

<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/scene.html>

THAT is the easy way to do most of the same things as the Animation tool.  But look over the other Chimera commands in that list too, in case they also do things that you want.

Elaine


> On May 4, 2018, at 1:59 PM, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michał, 
> In commands you can save positions with “savepos” and restore them gradually over several frames with “reset”… so there is positional interpolation without too much trouble.  There are also several other commands that take a “frames” option to occur over several image update frames, like “move” for translation and “roll” for rotation and “scale” to zoom in and out.  See the list of movie-related commands and links to example scripts in the “Making Movies” page:
> 
> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html>
> 
> However, it is still some work to include hiding/showing and changing colors at the right places in your script, and using “2dlabels” to change your 2D labels if you have any.
> 
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
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> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
> 
> 
>> On May 4, 2018, at 8:06 AM, Michał Kadlof <m.kadlof at cent.uw.edu.pl> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> I would like to make a movie using Chimera. I need to interpolate between key frames. I know how to do it using Animation tool, but I would like to do it for thousands of frames and clicking it all by hand is not doable.
>> Is there any magic command for making timeline automatic way?
>> --
>> ​best regards, 
>> Michał Kadlof <m.kadlof at cent.uw.edu.pl>
> 
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