Hi Tim, > I love pymol for creating high quality figures and analysing my > structures. But creating movies in pymol is rather tedious... CCP4mg > seems to be much easier to use for creating movies, you just have to > save a scene and CCP4mg interpolates between the created scenes. > > Is there a plan to include such a feature in pymol as well? It would > simplify the structural biologist`s life enormously.
Thanks for writing. PyMOL has had this capability for years--and it's really simple. You define scenes from the command line, using hot keys, or through the Scene menu. After your scenes are defined you can scroll through them with PgUp/PgDn or through the menus (Scene > Next/Previous). Here's a small intro to get you started: # create something to make a movie from fetch 1rx1, async=0 # turn on scene buttons set scene_buttons # store a "scene"; same as Ctrl-PgDn on the # keyboard or Scene > Append from menus scene 001, append orient # store a "scene"; same as Ctrl-PgDn on the # keyboard or Scene > Append from menus scene 002, append # move the camera around orient i. 40-42 show sticks, i. 40-42 # store scene scene 003, append # move the camera around, change # representation turn x, 45 as cartoon # store scene scene 004, append # go to the first scene scene 001 Now just hit PgUp/PgDn to automatically interpolate between scenes. Movie > Program > Scene Loop > ... will automatically program the movie for you (click the play button after you do this). If you have Incentive PyMOL then File > Save Movie > MPEG will even dump the movie to an MPEG for you. PyMOL will always smoothly transition from scene to scene even if you interrupt the transition. All of the above could have just as easily been done using the mouse: in PyMOL you can create movies without even touching the keyboard if you want. PyMOL also gives you scene buttons to click on and (right-click on). Here's a more in depth, if slightly outdated, tutorial: http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/MovieSchool Cheers, -- Jason -- Jason Vertrees, PhD PyMOL Product Manager Schrodinger, LLC (e) jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com (o) +1 (603) 374-7120 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
