[chimerax-users] Movie recording

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Dmitry,
Unfortunately ChimeraX does not have scriptable independent rotation, sorry.  The only similar thing is that you can set models to rotate independently when moved with the mouse: the "rotate independent" mouse mode available in ChimeraX 1.4 or newer.  For example:

mousemode right "rotate independent"

...to set right mouse button to that mode.  
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/ui.html#mousemode>

I don't know how you could make such a movie.  Maybe you could separate movies (saving all the image frames) and use some other program to paste the image frames side by side to combine them into one movie, but I haven't tried it myself.
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Jul 25, 2022, at 7:46 AM, Dmitry Semchonok via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> I have several maps and models that I would like to spin around independently at once and record as a movie.
> How to do that?
> Thank you in advance.
> Kind regards,
> Dmitry