[chimerax-users] polishing video

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Ruchika,
Much of making a movie is artistic license, so there is no single set of parameters that we recommend for what makes a movie good.  It depends what you are showing, how much detail it has, which parts you want to bring attention to, etc. and how big of a resulting file would be acceptable.   So there is no substitute for simply trying a lot of different things and seeing what looks good to you.

So all I can say is that those commands look generally reasonable.  Whether they are the best for your specific situation is not known.

My only correction is that you do not need "lighting simple" if you are going to use "lighting soft" after it.

Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Oct 7, 2021, at 9:29 AM, Ruchika Bajaj via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Elaine
> Hope you're doing well !! I need to polish my videos. I am mainly using the following commands. I am just wondering if you have any more suggestions to improve the quality of the movie. Please let me know. I would appreciate your help in this regard. 
> Thanks !!
> Regards
> Ruchika
> 
> set bgColor white; lighting simple; graphics silhouettes true; lighting soft
> movie record supersample 3;
> movie encode quality higher