[Chimera-users] Morph conformation: Starting all movies in the same time

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Damien,
You would use the "movie" command to control the recording.  That is, your script would include movie commands to start recording before the coordset command, stop recording, and then encode into movie file.  Command documentation and example movie command scripts:

<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/movie.html>
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html#moviecommands>
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html#examples>

I hope this helps,
Elaine

On Jan 27, 2012, at 5:16 AM, Damien Larivière wrote:

> Dear Elaine, Tom and Eric,
> 
> Many many many thanks for that! That's perfect! I have been able to clearly see a real difference between two of the 4 morph conformations. RMSD also indicates differences but it is more difficult to interpret.
> 
> Great!
> 
> I have another question: Since it is possible to display the deformation for the 4 models, can we record a movie of all the morph conformations?
> 
> Damien
> 
> ps: Tom, for your information, I tried coordset #0-3 1,100 but it retrurned "Must specify 1 molecule, got 4". I probably downloaded the daily build (windows 64bits) too early ?
> 
> 
> On 26/01/2012 20:16, Tom Goddard wrote:
>> Hi Damien,
>> 
>>   I improved the coordset command so you can say
>> 
>>     coordset #0-3 1,100
>> 
>> in tonight's Chimera daily builds.  (Will not be in the Chimera 1.6 release candidate though.)  Using multiple commands separated by semicolons or the above single command will play all trajectories in sync.
>> 
>>     Tom
>> 
>>> On Jan 26, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You could try putting four coordset commands together with semicolons, e.g. something like:
>>>> 
>>>> coordset #0 1,100; coordset #1 1,100; coordset #2 1,100; coordset #3 1,100
>>>> 
>>>> That should all be one line... the e-mail program may break it up.  You would substitute the model numbers of your morph trajectories and frame numbers as appropriate, and you could include other "coordset" options. 
>>>> <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/coordset.html>
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not completely sure they would start simultaneously, but that's my best guess of what to try.
>>> 
>>> As far as I know, they should start at the same time.  If they don't, let us know!
>>> 
>>> --Eric
>>> 
>> 
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