The default movie recording format for the Chimera movie command
is Quicktime (*.mov) suffix. If you change the file suffix to *.avi
the movie command still records it as Quicktime (pretty dumb eh?),
and that is why it doesn't work. You need to give an extra option
"mformat avi" to specify the format as shown here.
movie record ; turn y 3 120 ; wait 120 ; movie encode mformat avi
output ~/Desktop/m2.avi
Tom
Camilla wrote:
Hi Tom,
This is exactly what I was asking about! It looks great!
Thank you!
The only problem now is when I make this movie, it won't play
on my computer.
Originally when I was making the movie, I saved them as avi's
and using Windows Media Player I could watch the movies
perfectly. However, using the command you suggested, except
having it save as avi (...Desktop/m2.avi), it would not play.
There was an error message saying: "Windows Media Player cannot
play the file. The Player might not support the file type or
might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."
I'm not sure if maybe there is something wrong with my computer?
Do you have any ideas how I can fix this?
Thank you for all your help!
Camilla
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Tom
Goddard wrote:
Hi Camila,
The command to rotate your models smoothly is called
"turn". Here's an example sequence of commands that rotates
about the screen vertical axis in 3 degree steps for 120
steps (total of 360 degrees), waits for that rotation to
finish, then writes the movie file m2.mov to your desktop.
movie record ; turn y 3 120 ; wait 120 ; movie encode
output ~/Desktop/m2.mov
These 4 commands separated by semicolons can be typed as one
command to the Chimera command-line (menu Favorites /
Command-line). More commonly I'd put the 4 commands in a
file, say movie.cmd, with one command on each line (no
semi-colons) and just open that file in Chimera (File /
Open...) to record the movie. Putting the commands in a
file gives you more flexibility when you want to add more
fancy motions or color changes by adding additional
commands.
Take a look at the Chimera movie making tutorial for ideas
of additional useful commands
My name is Camilla and I'm an undergrad student
at UNC-CH. I've been using Chimera to create models
of fibrinogen polymerization. I discovered that I
could make movies of my models to be able to
see them from all views. However, my videos are
very choppy and since I rotate the model by mouse,
the movies are very poorly made. Is there a
specific command I could use where I can get the
model to rotate 360 degrees by itself to make this
movie more smooth and to be able to still see the
model all the way around one axis?