[chimerax-users] Making movies with ChimeraX

Omid Haji-Ghassemi omid.hajighassemi at ucalgary.ca
Wed Feb 23 14:45:44 PST 2022


Hi Elaine,

My apologies I forgot change the topic before sending the email. Thank you for the links and reply.

Best,
Omid

> On Feb 23, 2022, at 13:15, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
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> Dear Omid,
> I changed the "Subject" since this is a new topic...
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> There is a movie-making summary page in the ChimeraX User Guide:
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> <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/movies.html>
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> That page lists several animation commands, and the "see also" list includes links to movie-making tutorials.
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> 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>
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> 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>
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> 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:
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>> Dear ChimeraX community,
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>> 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
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