Hi Matthew, The movie images including the command-line is very weird -- never heard of that happening before. It is almost certainly a graphics driver problem. You can try a Chimera daily build which uses a different image capture method. Also you can report the bug with the version you are using Chimera menu entry Help / Report a Bug.... That will give us information about your graphics card and driver that may help us advise you further. Tom

Tom,

Thanks for the note -- regarding "all my commands show during the movie" --

When I use the command line interface, the entire chimera window gets recorded, not the viewing window with the protein. When I play back the movie, I see the tool bar complete with the command line. I even get to watch the text appear in the command line as it was entered. I am using the linux version and will take the opportunity to try the daily build. Thanks for the help. I'll keep you updated.

Cheers, Matthew

Tom Goddard wrote:

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Hi Matt,

Not sure what you mean by "all my commands show during the movie". Your second problem sounds like part of the image is corrupted and that is most likely a graphics driver problem causing the saved images to be wrong. You might want to try a Chimera daily build instead of the Chimera 1.4.1 production release because the daily builds use a different image capture method that may work better on your machine.

You might also look at the 2009 movie course material which is more up-to-date than the 2008 material.

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/tutorials/movies09/moviemaking.html

Both 2008 and 2009 materials primarily use command scripts and that is the recommended approach.

Tom

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Hello,

I am fairly new to using chimera and created my first movie using command line syntax. I am mostly pleased with the results, except for two things: (1) I used the 'movie record' option and all my commands show during the movie. (2) the right hand side of the image looks like 'snow'.

I followed similar instructions to the tutorial for ligand flying into unbound conformation from: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/tutorials/movies08/moviemaking.html

Should I be using a script instead? Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks for any help. Matt Skeels