Hi, Kako!

 I think all you have to do is to save respective views with clipping enabled and then make a movie that would interpolate between these views. To be more specific:

1) Save the starting view:
view orient
view name initial_view

2) adjust the clipping planes and orientation of the map as you wish and save another view:
view name clip_view

3) go back to the initial view and interpolate to the clipped view over 100 frames:
view initial_view
view clip_view 100; wait 100

 Of note, I used these commands ~1 year ago to make a movie for our lab's webpage, so the syntax might have changed in the meantime.

 Alternatively, you could set up the clipping planes outside the map and then move it through the clipping planes with move command that uses several frames.

 Good luck!

Best wishes,
Vadim


On 23.04.21 09:41, Stapleton kevin2017/4/3 wrote:
Greeting everyone in the ChiX community.  Long time listener first time caller :-)

I was wondering if anyone could help me with making a movie that is essentially slicing (clipping) through a given volume.  

I am pretty comfortable with the movie making movie parameters and I have read through the sections
 
1) help:user/movies.html
2) help:user/commands/clip.html

However the command parameters explanation is juuuuust a smidgen beyond my limits (almost there...damn!) and cant seems to get this into a working movie (if possible at all).

So, using the emdb entry: 22910 for example case, how can I make a movie that is 10 seconds long and extends through the clipping plane of a given volume, moving front to back (from the "view orient" perspective; the clipping plane will extend forward through the volume, and back again)

Thanks for all your help in this specific case, and for all of the efforts put into to this mailing list.  It has been a well spring of fun learning for me over the years.  SO many cool tips and tricks to make macro-molecular structures look top notch and cool.   THANKS CHIMERA TEAM!!

All the best and well wishes from Japan,
Kako

PS. apologies if this was covered in a previous thread.  I must have missed it.
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