Re: [Chimera-users] A question about MD movie

Hi Elaine, It worked well. Thank you very much! Sherry ******************************************************** Shu-Ying Sherry Wang, Associate Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology National Cheng Kung University 1 University Road Tainan, Taiwan 701 Tel: 886-6-2353535 ext.5634 Fax: 886-6-2082705 On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:

Hi Sherry, Yes, you can make a movie with simultaneous playbacks of multiple trajectories, but you would generally need to use a command script because it would be too hard to synchronize them yourself using the MD Movie dialogs.

You could open and load the trajectories the normal, interactive way, and position and display them how you like. Then with the Chimera command script you could play them by using a “coordset” command for each trajectory model, for example:

coordset #0 1,100; coordset #1 1,100

Once you get the script showing what you want, you can add the movie-recording commands to it.

For my mini-test I opened two NMR structures (1plx and 1g1p) as PDB single-file trajectories (models #0 and #1) and opened a plain-text command file named test.com containing these lines:

movie record coordset #0 1,18; coordset #1 1,18; wait 18 movie encode output ~/Desktop/test.mov

http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/coordset.html http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/movie.html < http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html#moviecommands

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… of course, your script could also do other things, like rotating, showing text (2D labels), etc. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

On Oct 30, 2014, at 12:18 AM, Sherry Wang wrote:

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Hi, Is it possible to to record a MD movie that combines several dcd files playing simultaneously, not sequentially? Thanks. Sherry Wang

******************************************************** Shu-Ying Sherry Wang, Associate Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology National Cheng Kung University 1 University Road Tainan, Taiwan 701