If you want to show motions other than the morph itself you do have to abandon the MD Movie interface and write a command script. Also, you have to use a daily build since the 1.3 release doesn't include the command needed to play through the morph trajectory ("coordset"). There is a summary of Chimera's movie-making features here:

and a movie-making tutorial from a class we recently gave here:

Reading through those will give you a firm footing for creating your own movie. Nonetheless, just to give you some idea what your script might look like, here's an example (which assumes you've already created the morph as model 0):

~disp solvent # hide waters

ribrepr smooth # nice ribbons, that is :-)

movie record supersample 3 # start recording frames

rock y 2 68; wait # rock about the y axis for 68 frames (approximately one full cycle); wait for the rock to finish

coordset #0 1, # play through morph

movie stop # stop recording frames

movie encode output ~/morph.mov bitrate 10000 # encode the movie as Quicktime with high quality, less compression

Eric Pettersen

UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

On Jun 2, 2009, at 11:56 PM, Schulz-Gasch, Tanja wrote:

Hi there, I used Chimera so far only for making pictures. Now I am doing the first movie steps. I want to combine features like
hide, show, rock,... with the MD Movie module to show a morph between different protein conformations. How can this be done?
The movie should start with the display part (using hide, show, rock,...) followed by the morphing. However, when using the MD movie
module the morph starts at frame 1.

Thanks, Tanja

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Dr. Tanja Schulz-Gasch