[chimerax-users] z-slice movie making

[Stapleton kevin2017/4/3]

Hello Vadim my new cross-forums friend!

I completely forgot about the view name options!   Yes this worked just fine but with some tweeks to get the video to 10sec.  I couldn't get the 'framerate' command to work properly.  So I just improvised :-)


For anyone else curious or learning here is how I achieved this:

## download thetest EM density
open 22296 from emdb

## Selected "clip" button from the "right mouse" tab and slid the clipper view all the way out so it looked as if normal.  This will be my start
## frame.  Then save this snapshot/scene
view name 1

## then use the clip to slide all the way through the volume until a desired point.  In my case all the way through.  Saved this 
## snapshot/scene
view name 2

## go back to original snapshot
view 1

##Test the transition works
view 1  1; wait 1; view 2 250; wait 250

## record the movie
movie record  supersample 3; view 1  1; wait 1; view 2 250; wait 250; movie stop; movie encode  ~/Desktop/9.mp4

 
I tried the above method and it worked great!  However, now I want to look even cooloer by making the same movie, but with the volume styled in "Plane" or "tilted slab".  

Anyone have a workaround for this?

Thanks again Vadim and next time I'm in the EU I will buy you a beer/coffee!

Kako





----- Original Message -----
>> From: Vadim Kotov <vadim.r.kotov at gmail.com>
>> To: Stapleton kevin2017/4/3 <kevin.aug at protein.osaka-u.ac.jp>,chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu
>> Date: 2021-04-23 17:18:14
>> Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] z-slice movie making
>> 
>> Hi, Kako!
>> 
>>   I think all you have to do is to save respective views with clipping 
>> enabled and then make a movie that would interpolate between these 
>> views. To be more specific:
>> 
>> 1) Save the starting view:
>> view orient
>> view name initial_view
>> 
>> 2) adjust the clipping planes and orientation of the map as you wish and 
>> save another view:
>> view name clip_view
>> 
>> 3) go back to the initial view and interpolate to the clipped view over 
>> 100 frames:
>> view initial_view
>> view clip_view 100; wait 100
>> 
>>   Of note, I used these commands ~1 year ago to make a movie for our 
>> lab's webpage 
>> <https://www.cssb-hamburg.de/research/research_groups/loew_group/index_eng.html>, 
>> so the syntax might have changed in the meantime.
>> 
>>   Alternatively, you could set up the clipping planes outside the map 
>> and then move it through the clipping planes with move 
>> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/move.html> command 
>> that uses several frames.
>> 
>>   Good luck!
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> Vadim
>> 
>> 
>> On 23.04.21 09:41, Stapleton kevin2017/4/3 wrote:
>> > Greeting everyone in the ChiX community.  Long time listener first time caller :-)
>> >
>> > I was wondering if anyone could help me with making a movie that is essentially slicing (clipping) through a given volume.
>> >
>> > I am pretty comfortable with the movie making movie parameters and I have read through the sections
>> >   
>> > 1) help:user/movies.html
>> > 2) help:user/commands/clip.html
>> >
>> > However the command parameters explanation is juuuuust a smidgen beyond my limits (almost there...damn!) and cant seems to get this into a working movie (if possible at all).
>> >
>> > So, using the emdb entry: 22910 for example case, how can I make a movie that is 10 seconds long and extends through the clipping plane of a given volume, moving front to back (from the "view orient" perspective; the clipping plane will extend forward through the volume, and back again)
>> >
>> > Thanks for all your help in this specific case, and for all of the efforts put into to this mailing list.  It has been a well spring of fun learning for me over the years.  SO many cool tips and tricks to make macro-molecular structures look top notch and cool.   THANKS CHIMERA TEAM!!
>> >
>> > All the best and well wishes from Japan,
>> > Kako
>> >
>> > PS. apologies if this was covered in a previous thread.  I must have missed it.
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