[chimerax-users] Making movies with ChimeraX

[Elaine Meng]

Dear Omid,
I changed the "Subject" since this is a new topic...

There is a movie-making summary page in the ChimeraX User Guide:

<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/movies.html>

That page lists several animation commands, and the "see also" list includes links to movie-making tutorials.

One of the examples is this "morphing movie" feature highlight, which includes the ChimeraX command scripts (.cxc files) that were used.
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/features.html#morphing>

Normally you would do all the setup once, then save a session, then iteratively develop a series of commands that would execute (and eventually record) the movie content starting from that session.
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/save.html#session>

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

> On Feb 23, 2022, at 9:23 AM, Omid Haji-Ghassemi via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear ChimeraX community,
> 
> I am looking to make a complicated movie in ChimeraX and not just a rotation around a structure. I was wondering if there are any links or sites that you can recommend for all the useful commands/tips for making movies. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Omid
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> Dr. Omid Haji-Ghassemi
> Assistant Professor, 
> Biological Sciences Department 
> University of Calgary
> https://hajighassemilab.org