Hi Elaine Hope you're doing well !! I need to polish my videos. I am mainly using the following commands. I am just wondering if you have any more suggestions to improve the quality of the movie. Please let me know. I would appreciate your help in this regard. Thanks !! Regards Ruchika
set bgColor white; lighting simple; graphics silhouettes true; lighting soft
movie record supersample 3;
movie encode quality higher
Hi Ruchika, Much of making a movie is artistic license, so there is no single set of parameters that we recommend for what makes a movie good. It depends what you are showing, how much detail it has, which parts you want to bring attention to, etc. and how big of a resulting file would be acceptable. So there is no substitute for simply trying a lot of different things and seeing what looks good to you.
So all I can say is that those commands look generally reasonable. Whether they are the best for your specific situation is not known.
My only correction is that you do not need "lighting simple" if you are going to use "lighting soft" after it.
Best, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Oct 7, 2021, at 9:29 AM, Ruchika Bajaj via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
Hi Elaine Hope you're doing well !! I need to polish my videos. I am mainly using the following commands. I am just wondering if you have any more suggestions to improve the quality of the movie. Please let me know. I would appreciate your help in this regard. Thanks !! Regards Ruchika
set bgColor white; lighting simple; graphics silhouettes true; lighting soft movie record supersample 3; movie encode quality higher
One more thing is that there is "lighting gentle" that is similar to "lighting soft" so you may want to try both and see which one you like better.
Elaine
On Oct 7, 2021, at 9:40 AM, Elaine Meng via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
Hi Ruchika, Much of making a movie is artistic license, so there is no single set of parameters that we recommend for what makes a movie good. It depends what you are showing, how much detail it has, which parts you want to bring attention to, etc. and how big of a resulting file would be acceptable. So there is no substitute for simply trying a lot of different things and seeing what looks good to you.
So all I can say is that those commands look generally reasonable. Whether they are the best for your specific situation is not known.
My only correction is that you do not need "lighting simple" if you are going to use "lighting soft" after it.
Best, Elaine
Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Oct 7, 2021, at 9:29 AM, Ruchika Bajaj via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
Hi Elaine Hope you're doing well !! I need to polish my videos. I am mainly using the following commands. I am just wondering if you have any more suggestions to improve the quality of the movie. Please let me know. I would appreciate your help in this regard. Thanks !! Regards Ruchika
set bgColor white; lighting simple; graphics silhouettes true; lighting soft movie record supersample 3; movie encode quality higher
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Thanks Elaine for your suggestions !! Regards Ruchika
On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 10:12 PM Elaine Meng meng@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
One more thing is that there is "lighting gentle" that is similar to "lighting soft" so you may want to try both and see which one you like better.
Elaine
On Oct 7, 2021, at 9:40 AM, Elaine Meng via ChimeraX-users <
chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Ruchika, Much of making a movie is artistic license, so there is no single set of
parameters that we recommend for what makes a movie good. It depends what you are showing, how much detail it has, which parts you want to bring attention to, etc. and how big of a resulting file would be acceptable. So there is no substitute for simply trying a lot of different things and seeing what looks good to you.
So all I can say is that those commands look generally reasonable.
Whether they are the best for your specific situation is not known.
My only correction is that you do not need "lighting simple" if you are
going to use "lighting soft" after it.
Best, Elaine
Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Oct 7, 2021, at 9:29 AM, Ruchika Bajaj via ChimeraX-users <
chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Elaine Hope you're doing well !! I need to polish my videos. I am mainly using
the following commands. I am just wondering if you have any more suggestions to improve the quality of the movie. Please let me know. I would appreciate your help in this regard.
Thanks !! Regards Ruchika
set bgColor white; lighting simple; graphics silhouettes true; lighting
soft
movie record supersample 3; movie encode quality higher
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