Hi Jean-Paul, It also works for me on Mac OS 10.5.4 / X11 (of course, using a different directory and output location). I get 60 frames in PPM format and the movie file. Besides what Tom said about the "wait" at the beginning, some other things to check: - are you using a recent version of Chimera? Tom and I are using releases from this month. - it's probably the e-mail software's fault for breaking it up, but the entire "movie encode" command should be one line - it is not necessary to put ";" at the end of each line... that is only needed as a separator, between commands that are on the same line. However, I tried the script both with and without all the end- of-line ";" and it did not seem to make any difference (for example, "movie stop" instead of "movie stop;") - your bitrate is extra-high - did you try just using the default? Or did this high value work in other movies? Also, I don't think we have heard of a script stopping unless there is some error in a command. In that case, however, there should be some error message in Chimera. Elaine On Jul 21, 2008, at 8:32 PM, Tom Goddard wrote:
Hi Jean-Paul,
The script you sent works for me with Mac X11 Chimera 1.2540 on Mac OS 10.4.11. I open two maps and the resulting movie is correct.
You don't have any motion going on like a "roll" do you? Because the first line of this script "wait" with no frame count means that subsequent lines of the script will not be executed until all motion ceases. Likewise you have wait command with no frame count on the first two transparency setting lines.
Tom
Jean-Paul Armache wrote:
Thank you for the reply. It seems that I have today a lot of questions. There is one more: I have a script. When not in movie recording mode, it works fine. However, if I input movie record and at the end movie stop and encode, then at some point the script stops. Once it stopped with the labels, so at the end I removed the labels. Now I have one map visible and I want it to slowly get transparent to a point when it is no longer visible. And here lies the problem. The script is fairly easy:
wait; movie record directory /Users/jean-paularmache/tmp-chimera;
volume #1 transparency 0.0; wait; volume #0 transparency 0.0; wait;
volume #0 transparency 0.05; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.1; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.15; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.2; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.25; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.3; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.35; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.4; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.45; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.5; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.55; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.6; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.65; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.7; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.75; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.8; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.85; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.9; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 0.95; wait 3; volume #0 transparency 1.0; wait 3;
#movie finished movie stop; movie encode bitrate 12000 mformat avi output /Users/jean-paularmache/Desktop/firstmovie.avi
Ok, what happens is that Chimera generates endless amount of images. Really, without cease. Now, if I do "movie stop;" from the command line, it generates the avi file. However, the whole avi file consists of one frame movie (meaning that even though it has the right amount of frames, all are just one frame). What is more surprising is that with other scripts this transparency works. It is just right here that it doesn't want to cooperate. Could you think of any reasons it might be behaving like that?
Best regards,
Jean-Paul Armache