[Chimera-users] Movie recording does not stop

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Jean-Paul,

  The script you sent works for me with Mac X11 Chimera 1.2540 on Mac OS 
10.4.11.  I open two maps and the resulting movie is correct.

  You don't have any motion going on like a "roll" do you?  Because the 
first line of this script "wait" with no frame count means that 
subsequent lines of the script will not be executed until all motion 
ceases.  Likewise you have wait command with no frame count on the first 
two transparency setting lines.

    Tom


Jean-Paul Armache wrote:
> Thank you for the reply. It seems that I have today a lot of questions.
> There is one more:
> I have a script. When not in movie recording mode, it works fine. 
> However, if I input movie record and at the end movie stop and encode,
> then at some point the script stops. Once it stopped with the labels, 
> so at the end I removed the labels. Now I have one map visible and I want
> it to slowly get transparent to a point when it is no longer visible. 
> And here lies the problem. The script is fairly easy:
>
> wait;
> movie record directory /Users/jean-paularmache/tmp-chimera;
>
> volume #1 transparency 0.0; wait;
> volume #0 transparency 0.0; wait;
>
>
> volume #0 transparency 0.05; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.1; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.15; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.2; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.25; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.3; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.35; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.4; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.45; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.5; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.55; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.6; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.65; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.7; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.75; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.8; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.85; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.9; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 0.95; wait 3;
> volume #0 transparency 1.0; wait 3;
>
>
> #movie finished
> movie stop;
> movie encode bitrate 12000 mformat avi output 
> /Users/jean-paularmache/Desktop/firstmovie.avi
>
>
>
> Ok, what happens is that Chimera generates endless amount of images. 
> Really, without cease. Now, if I do "movie stop;" from the command
> line, it generates the avi file. However, the whole avi file consists 
> of one frame movie (meaning that even though it has the right amount of
> frames, all are just one frame).
> What is more surprising is that with other scripts this transparency 
> works. It is just right here that it doesn't want to cooperate. Could you
> think of any reasons it might be behaving like that?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jean-Paul Armache