Hi Elaine, Thanks a lot for the helpful information. I forgot to clarify the wait option. Thanks and cheers, Yanhe Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> 于2021年10月18日周一 下午7:36写道：

Hi Yanhe, I'm not sure what you are trying to get (or what you expected) from that command.

None of those commands are multi-frame actions spread out over time. Only the mclip command changes the display, but it does so in a single step, so even if you put wait (which should be at least "wait 1") after it, you would only get one frame:

movie record directory ./my_movie pattern Movi1-* fformat jpeg; mclip #0 offset -1 slab false; wait 1; movie stop

Movie-related commands, including several that can have multi-frame actions: < https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html#moviecommands

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Or maybe you wanted several frames recorded while nothing is happening? Then you would need to include larger numbers of frames in the wait commands, e.g.

movie record directory ./my_movie pattern Movi1-* fformat jpeg; wait 50; mclip #0 offset -1 slab false; wait 50; movie stop

Command file examples <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html#examples>

I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

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On Oct 18, 2021, at 4:07 PM, Yanhe Zhao via Chimera-users < chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Good afternoon and greeting there,

I use command as below for movie making but no frames were recorded. Could you please help me out on it?

movie record directory ./my_movie pattern Movi1-* fformat jpeg; wait; mclip #0 offset -1 slab false; movie stop;

Thanks and cheers, Yanhe