Hi Petr, That's a hard way to make the movie showing side by side rotating models. Chimera can rotate each model about its own center using "independent" center of rotation mode. Enable this with command "cofr independent", move one model away from another "move x 20 model #1", and rotate them "turn y 3 120" (3 degree steps, 120 steps). Here's how to get movie frames if you still want to know. If you add to your "movie encode" command the option "resetMode keep" then the image files will not be deleted after encoding. To specify where to put the image files use the "directory /tmp/images" option to the "movie record" command, otherwise a temp directory is used and you won't be able to find the images. http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/movie.html Tom
Hi,
A backward question: Is it possible to write out a movie as a set of frames? I would like to show several structures rotating side by side and the simplest way I can think of is to collage frames using imagemagick and create a new video stream with mencoder.
Many thanks,
Petr