Dear Chimera team, I ma trying to record a simple movie using the following command #!/bin/csh -f # # windowsize 900 1094 movie record supersample 4 volume #0 style solid; wait volume #0 planes z,0,0; wait volume #0 planes z,0,115; wait movie stop ###bitrate 5000 movie encode output my_movie.mp4 quality highest framerate 25 mformat mp4 however I keep on getting this error message: /Applications/Chimera/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ffmpeg -r 25.0 -i /var/folders/2h/r_flycl50hj8klh8w4t1xmw400030f/T/chimovie_Vcz6-%05d.ppm -vf crop=floor(in_w/2)*2:floor(in_h/2)*2:0:0 -y -f mp4 -pix_fmt yuv420p -qscale 1 /Users/user/Desktop/folder/my_movie.mp4 An error occurred during encoding. See Reply Log for details. Error during MPEG encoding: ----------------------------- Exit value: 1 Error message: libavutil 52. 48.100 / 52. 48.100 libavcodec 55. 39.100 / 55. 39.100 libavformat 55. 19.104 / 55. 19.104 libavdevice 55. 5.100 / 55. 5.100 libavfilter 3. 90.100 / 3. 90.100 libswscale 2. 5.101 / 2. 5.101 libswresample 0. 17.104 / 0. 17.104 libpostproc 52. 3.100 / 52. 3.100 [image2 @ 0x7fac00802000] Could find no file with path '/var/folders/2h/r_flycl50hj8klh8w4t1xmw400030f/T/chimovie_Vcz6-%05d.ppm' and index in the range 0-4 /var/folders/2h/r_flycl50hj8klh8w4t1xmw400030f/T/chimovie_Vcz6-%05d.ppm: No such file or directory Could you please let me know what am I doing wrong? I tried both on my laptop (MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with OS version 10.11.6 (15G1004)) and our linux terminals (Linux sbterm 3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64 GNU/Linux) It happens on both Chimera 1.12 and Chimera 1.11 Many thanks in advance, Edoardo --------------------------------------------------- Edoardo D'Imprima PhD Student Max Planck Institute of Biophysics Structural Biology Department Max-von-Laue Straße 3 60438 Frankfurt am Main Germany Tel: +49 (0) 69 6303 3015