Re: [chimerax-users] re error with Movie recorder utility
Hi Anna, This chimerax-users email address is for questions about ChimeraX, but it sounds like you are using the Chimera program instead, since only Chimera has a Movie Recorder tool. So I am CC-ing the chimera-users email address on this reply, and you do not need to re-send your question. There is no separate "freeware version" -- Chimera is free for academic use and the download is the same for academically or commercially licensed users. (This is also the case for ChimeraX). The Command Line is always for entering one command at a time, i.e. that is the normal situation, not a problem or bug. If you have just a few commands you can enter them as one line with semicolons between them. However, if you mean that you have a script that contains many Chimera commands, you do not enter them one at a time into the command line. Instead you use some text-editing program (outside of Chimera) to create a plain text command file containing those commands, then you open that file using either the Chimera menu File... Open, or the Chimera "open" command. Normally command files are named with the filename extension ".com" or ".cmd" so that Chimera knows what kind of file you are trying to open. See Chimera help pages and tutorials on making movies, namely: Making movies: <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html> Movie Recorder help page (you can just click the Help button on the tool, or see the copy of the same thing at our website here): <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/recorder/recorder.html> Chimera movie-making tutorials: <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/tutorials/movies09/moviemaking.html> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/tutorials/movies08/moviemaking.html> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Aug 16, 2023, at 6:31 PM, Anna Lohning via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi I have the freeware version installed and trying to make a movie using the Tools/Utilities/Movie recorder window. At this stage, I seem to only have the command line available for commands one at a time. Anyway, under the Tools/Utilities, the only options there currently are Register Updates
Be grateful for some clarification as I cant seem to find anyone having this issue. Many thanks Kind regards
Anna Dr Anna Elizabeth Lohning Associate Professor - Biochemistry Faculty of Health Science & Medicine Bond University ROBINA 4229 (07) 5595 4779 alohning@bond.edu.au
Thanks so much for your reply. Actually, I do have ChimeraX but I was not aware that it no longer has the Movie Recorder facility. I've managed to subscribe now to the mailing list. Thanks. Will use the scripting instead. Many thanks again for taking time to reply 😊 Kind regards Anna Dr Anna Elizabeth Lohning Associate Professor - Biochemistry Faculty of Health Science & Medicine Bond University ROBINA 4229 (07) 5595 4779 alohning@bond.edu.au -----Original Message----- From: Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2023 11:57 AM To: Anna Lohning <alohning@bond.edu.au> Cc: chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu; chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu List <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] re error with Movie recorder utility [CAUTION: External Sender] Hi Anna, This chimerax-users email address is for questions about ChimeraX, but it sounds like you are using the Chimera program instead, since only Chimera has a Movie Recorder tool. So I am CC-ing the chimera-users email address on this reply, and you do not need to re-send your question. There is no separate "freeware version" -- Chimera is free for academic use and the download is the same for academically or commercially licensed users. (This is also the case for ChimeraX). The Command Line is always for entering one command at a time, i.e. that is the normal situation, not a problem or bug. If you have just a few commands you can enter them as one line with semicolons between them. However, if you mean that you have a script that contains many Chimera commands, you do not enter them one at a time into the command line. Instead you use some text-editing program (outside of Chimera) to create a plain text command file containing those commands, then you open that file using either the Chimera menu File... Open, or the Chimera "open" command. Normally command files are named with the filename extension ".com" or ".cmd" so that Chimera knows what kind of file you are trying to open. See Chimera help pages and tutorials on making movies, namely: Making movies: <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html> Movie Recorder help page (you can just click the Help button on the tool, or see the copy of the same thing at our website here): <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/recorder/recorder.html> Chimera movie-making tutorials: <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/tutorials/movies09/moviemaking.html> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/tutorials/movies08/moviemaking.html> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Aug 16, 2023, at 6:31 PM, Anna Lohning via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi I have the freeware version installed and trying to make a movie using the Tools/Utilities/Movie recorder window. At this stage, I seem to only have the command line available for commands one at a time. Anyway, under the Tools/Utilities, the only options there currently are Register Updates
Be grateful for some clarification as I cant seem to find anyone having this issue. Many thanks Kind regards
Anna Dr Anna Elizabeth Lohning Associate Professor - Biochemistry Faculty of Health Science & Medicine Bond University ROBINA 4229 (07) 5595 4779 alohning@bond.edu.au
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