Hi Elaine, OMG! Thanks you so much! Adding 2 waits at the end of the script solved my issue! Also thanks for the other professional tips, especially lighting and moving are so much nicer! So in the future it is better to write to chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu for any issue I should encounter? Thanks a lot! Nicco
On 6 Jul 2020, at 23:08, Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Nicco, That's a pretty good start! It always takes a lot of trial and error to make a complicated movie script. I CC'd the chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu list (recommended for asking ChimeraX questions) but did not include your detailed script in case you wanted to keep it private.
ChimeraX does not automatically wait until each command is done before starting the next, so perhaps it is racing ahead to the encoding while previous commands are still executing.
It's always a little confusing (at least to me) when a "wait" command is needed, so when there seems to be missing content I usually just keep adding "; wait" at the end of each line or to be even more sure, "; wait N" (where N is number of frames) after any multi-frame commands.
I suspect you need more wait commands in the last part of your script, say after the last H-bond calculation and/or the two last turn commands.
Other tips for your movie:
(1) The soft lighting isn't great for ribbons and sticks, it makes them look smudgy or sooty. It is mainly for surfaces/space-filling displays. Instead "light simple" or even "light gentle" may look better.
(2) in some cases you can avoid making selections and simply instead name the set of atoms and then use the name in the commands. For example, instead of this
select /E:9-28 /E:32-39 show sel atoms hbonds sel select clear
... you could have this
name myres /E:9-28,32-39 show myres atoms hbonds myres
(3) you can gradually restore a view over a number of frames instead of abrupt transition, for example, instead of
view side; wait view hole
... you could transition gradually over 60 frames with
view side; wait view hole frames 60; wait 60
I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Jul 5, 2020, at 11:27 AM, Nicco <arecco.niccolo@gmail.com> wrote:
The following bug report has been submitted: Platform: Darwin-19.3.0-x86_64-i386-64bit ChimeraX Version: 1.0 (2020-06-04 23:15:07 UTC) Description Hi,
I'm trying to record a movie and the movie generated stops before executing all final steps. It's like the last frames are not recorded even when I see a very high limit. I feel like movie encode starts processing before it is called.
For example these commands below are not present in the movie but the movie encode is called afterwards. # Select last interaction area select /F:370,375 /E:270,309,314 show sel atoms hbonds sel select clear
# Final show turn x 15 60 rock 130 turn -y 15 60 rock 130
I'm a bit puzzled of why this is happening and I don't really now how to fix it.
I attach the .cxc file with the set of instructions that I use to create the movie. Please consider that my experience level is beginner so there could be something that I'm doing wrong.
Thank you! Nicco