Hi Matt, Chimera puts movie frame images in a system temporary directory obtained from the Python tempfile.gettempdir() routine. If you record a movie with the Chimera "movie encode" command you can see the actual ffmpeg command used to do the encoding in the Chimera reply log (Favorites / Reply Log). Here's an example /usr/local/src/staff/goddard/daily-cocoa64/install/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ffmpeg -r 25 -i /var/folders/+g/+gO21g+SFqCxNgLVgIvElk+++TM/-Tmp-/chimovie_hqMi-%05d.ppm -y -f mov -b 2000kb -qscale 8 /Users/goddard/Desktop/test.mov I see that it had the temporary files on my Mac in /var/folders/+g/+gO21g+SFqCxNgLVgIvElk+++TM/-Tmp-/ Checking the Python documentation for gettempdir() I see it looks at the TMPDIR environment variable. On my Mac that is indeed set to this hideous path. Here is the Python documentation for gettempdir() if you need to dig further http://docs.python.org/library/tempfile.html You can set the directory to store the images in the "movie record" command using the "directory" option. http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/midas/movie.html#rec... Tom Dougherty, Matthew T wrote:

Hi-

Where is the default directory for movie images on the mac?

thanks,

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