Hi Jacob, In ChimeraX scripts, you have to specify waiting for multi-frame commands to finish (if that's what you want) before going to the next command. Some commands allow just putting "wait" after them without a number of frames, but many require also specifying the frames, e.g. turn y 0.25 1440; wait 1440 (I think turn allows simply using "wait" but it doesn't hurt to include the number of frames.) ChimeraX command files, see "concurrent vs. serial action": <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/usageconventions.html#cxc-...> wait command <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/wait.html> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

On Oct 11, 2021, at 9:59 AM, Anderson, Jacob via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Dear ChimeraX Users, Making a movie with a CXC script/command file, I find that the "fly" command interrupts the "turn" command. For example if I run these two lines:

turn y 0.25 1440 fly Frame_01 400 Frame_02 400 Frame_03 400 Frame_04 400 Frame_05

Before the turn completes, the view goes to Frame_01. Is this the expected behavior?

If not, would love any tips on how to complete a turn of the molecular model before flying to Frame_01 (or p1 in the ChimeraX fly user help documentation). Jacob