[Chimera-users] making slow movie

[Elaine Meng]

Thanks Ben!  Everything you said is right.  I just wanted to add a few  
things about MD Movie:

Bala, you can still use "File... Record movie" in the MD Movie tool  
and specify the frame rate.  That dialog includes an entry field for  
"Additional encoding options".  You could enter any of the same  
options used with the "movie encode" command in that box, including

framerate 10

(or whatever number you wanted).

If you put the MD Movie playback speed slider towards the left, that  
should also make the movie look slower because it will insert  
identical image frames.

Click the Help button on your MD Movie recording dialog to see its  
documentation, including links to the command-line options that can be  
put in the "Additional recording options" and "Additional encoding  
options" boxes.
Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                          meng at cgl.ucsf.edu
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
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On Apr 16, 2009, at 4:39 AM, Bala subramanian wrote:

> Hi Benoit,
> Thank you. Actually i was recording the movie with the Record movie  
> option in the MD movie tool where this setting is not there. I will  
> try with movie recorded.
>
> Thanks,
> Bala
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Benoit Zuber <bzuber at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk 
> > wrote:
> Hi Bala,
> regarding your first point: you can set the number of frames per  
> second in the movie recorder window. Alternatively, if you encode  
> your movie with a command line, you can set the number of frames per  
> second with the option framerate
>
> Ben
>
> Bala subramanian wrote:
> Friends,
>
> I am using MD movie with chimera to see the motion of a single pdb  
> containing 25 models. I kept the play back speed at low value, then  
> recorded the movie. But the movie comes very fast. I guess there is  
> no related functionality between playback speed and the speed with  
> which the movie is recorded.
>
> 1) How can i record a movie with low playback speed.
> 2) Is it possible to split the chimera screen in to two halfes or as  
> quadrants (like in sybyl) and then load the molecules wherever we  
> want.
>  Now why i need it ?.
>  I have two pdb files (each consisiting of 25 models). If i can  
> split the chimera screen, i would like to load pdb1 left and pdb2 in  
> rigth side using MD movie, then record the movie. Any better idea  
> than this to achieve the same would be highly appreciated.
>
> 3) Kindly suggest me some better setting to record a movie with high  
> clarity based on your experience.
>
> Thanks,
> Bala
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