[Chimera-users] frames not record for movie making

[Yanhe Zhao]

Hi Elaine,

Thanks a lot for the helpful information. I forgot to clarify the wait
option.

Thanks and cheers,
Yanhe

Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> 于2021年10月18日周一 下午7:36写道：

> 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
> -----
> 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
>
>
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