making movies with CMM files
hello, Is there a way to generate a movie out of a set of CMM files ( similar to MD Movie with PDB files)? thank you very much, Keren.
Hi Keren, Only the MD Movie tool knows how to play through a series of models for an animation. I tried writing several Chimera marker models to a single PDB file (File / Save PDB...) and playing it with MD Movie but it flopped. Markers did not get connected properly and sizes and colors were lost. That leaves me with ~disp ; disp #1 ~disp ; disp #2 .... ~disp ; disp #25 as a means to flip through the Chimera marker models. Could save this in a *.cmd file and open it in Chimera. Could use some Python code instead for more flexibility: from chimera import runCommand as r for i in range(1,26): r('~disp ; disp #%d' % i) that would go in a *.py file that you would open (possibly with the open command). The movie making capabilities of Chimera are very limited. Tom Keren Lasker wrote:
hello,
Is there a way to generate a movie out of a set of CMM files ( similar to MD Movie with PDB files)?
thank you very much, Keren. _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
On Feb 6, 2009, at 5:11 AM, Tom Goddard wrote:
Hi Keren,
Only the MD Movie tool knows how to play through a series of models for an animation. I tried writing several Chimera marker models to a single PDB file (File / Save PDB...) and playing it with MD Movie but it flopped. Markers did not get connected properly and sizes and colors were lost.
MD Movie plays trajectories, which results in the implicit assumption that the atoms and bonds don't change between frames (which also allows for much less memory use). So it is naturally not going to work for a series of marker sets where presumably the atoms (markers) and bonds (connections) vary each frame. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu
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