[Chimera-users] frames not record for movie making

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Yanhe,
I'm not sure what you are trying to get (or what you expected) from that command.

None of those commands are multi-frame actions spread out over time.  Only the mclip command changes the display, but it does so in a single step, so even if you put wait (which should be at least "wait 1") after it, you would only get one frame:

movie record directory ./my_movie pattern Movi1-* fformat jpeg; mclip #0 offset -1 slab false; wait 1; movie stop

Movie-related commands, including several that can have multi-frame actions:
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html#moviecommands>

Or maybe you wanted several frames recorded while nothing is happening?  Then you would need to include larger numbers of frames in the wait commands, e.g.

movie record directory ./my_movie pattern Movi1-* fformat jpeg; wait 50; mclip #0 offset -1 slab false; wait 50; movie stop

Command file examples
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html#examples>

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 Oct 18, 2021, at 4:07 PM, Yanhe Zhao via Chimera-users <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Good afternoon and greeting there,
> 
> I use command as below for movie making but no frames were recorded. Could you please help me out on it?
> 
> movie record directory ./my_movie pattern Movi1-* fformat jpeg; wait; mclip #0 offset -1 slab false; movie stop;
> 
> Thanks and cheers,
> Yanhe