Keep mouse or pointer active in recorded movies
Hi ChimeraX team, I was wondering whether there is an option to make a mouse/cursor (or some sort of other pointer) visible when movies are recorded? E.g. When I want to point to my model or run simulations in Isolde and move atoms around, my mouse/cursor is not visible in the recording. Is it possible to keep the cursor visible in the recording, so that it becomes clear what was moved/pointed at in a movie recording? I hope the question make sense! Many thanks for all your work on this, awesome piece of software! Regards, Sarah
Hi Sarah, Use a screen capture program instead of the ChimeraX movie command if you want to see the mouse pointer. The ChimeraX movie command just takes images of the graphics as fast as it can and then makes a movie that plays back at a fixed frame rate (default 25 frames/sec). If ChimeraX captured frames slower than that (which is usually the case) then the recorded movie looks sped up. That might not be what you want. And it cannot capture the mouse pointer while screen capture programs often do capture the mouse pointer. On Windows I have used FlashBack Express that even highlights where the pointer is to make it more visible. On Mac, QuickTime can do screen capture of a region. Tom
On Sep 18, 2020, at 6:29 PM, Sarah Piper <sarahjpiper89@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi ChimeraX team,
I was wondering whether there is an option to make a mouse/cursor (or some sort of other pointer) visible when movies are recorded?
E.g. When I want to point to my model or run simulations in Isolde and move atoms around, my mouse/cursor is not visible in the recording. Is it possible to keep the cursor visible in the recording, so that it becomes clear what was moved/pointed at in a movie recording?
I hope the question make sense!
Many thanks for all your work on this, awesome piece of software!
Regards,
Sarah
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On 19 Sep 2020, at 02:37, Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net> wrote:
Hi Sarah,
Use a screen capture program instead of the ChimeraX movie command if you want to see the mouse pointer. The ChimeraX movie command just takes images of the graphics as fast as it can and then makes a movie that plays back at a fixed frame rate (default 25 frames/sec). If ChimeraX captured frames slower than that (which is usually the case) then the recorded movie looks sped up. That might not be what you want. And it cannot capture the mouse pointer while screen capture programs often do capture the mouse pointer. On Windows I have used FlashBack Express that even highlights where the pointer is to make it more visible. On Mac, QuickTime can do screen capture of a region.
Tom
On Sep 18, 2020, at 6:29 PM, Sarah Piper <sarahjpiper89@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi ChimeraX team,
I was wondering whether there is an option to make a mouse/cursor (or some sort of other pointer) visible when movies are recorded?
E.g. When I want to point to my model or run simulations in Isolde and move atoms around, my mouse/cursor is not visible in the recording. Is it possible to keep the cursor visible in the recording, so that it becomes clear what was moved/pointed at in a movie recording?
I hope the question make sense!
Many thanks for all your work on this, awesome piece of software!
Regards,
Sarah
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Sigh... very technical PEBKAC issues at the end of a long day. Here’s what I *meant* to post: In Linux, I’m finding GTK-RecordMyDesktop works pretty nicely. In Windows, the built-in XBox-Live game capture is also quite nice (windows key+G to launch it).
On 21 Sep 2020, at 19:08, Tristan Croll <tic20@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
On 19 Sep 2020, at 02:37, Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net> wrote:
Hi Sarah,
Use a screen capture program instead of the ChimeraX movie command if you want to see the mouse pointer. The ChimeraX movie command just takes images of the graphics as fast as it can and then makes a movie that plays back at a fixed frame rate (default 25 frames/sec). If ChimeraX captured frames slower than that (which is usually the case) then the recorded movie looks sped up. That might not be what you want. And it cannot capture the mouse pointer while screen capture programs often do capture the mouse pointer. On Windows I have used FlashBack Express that even highlights where the pointer is to make it more visible. On Mac, QuickTime can do screen capture of a region.
Tom
On Sep 18, 2020, at 6:29 PM, Sarah Piper <sarahjpiper89@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi ChimeraX team,
I was wondering whether there is an option to make a mouse/cursor (or some sort of other pointer) visible when movies are recorded?
E.g. When I want to point to my model or run simulations in Isolde and move atoms around, my mouse/cursor is not visible in the recording. Is it possible to keep the cursor visible in the recording, so that it becomes clear what was moved/pointed at in a movie recording?
I hope the question make sense!
Many thanks for all your work on this, awesome piece of software!
Regards,
Sarah
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