Simon, Thanks for the suggestion. That is exactly my workaround. But I found out that I don't have to render the first 70 frames. I used "mpng xxx, 70, 300" and it worked fine. So this should save some rendering time.
-- Jianghai On May 10, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Simon Kolstoe wrote: > Hi Jianghai, > > I've had a similar problem. I think it is to do with a mismatch > between the mpng command and moving the movie to the next frame. It > looks to me as if the mpng command saves what's in the pymol viewer > regardless of whether the next frame has actually played. The main > solution I've found is to use a computer with more RAM as this seems > to minimise the problem. The alternative is to put a pause at the > beginning of the move before getting into the animation. In your > case I would put a 70 frame pause at the beginning of the movie and > then edit it out at a later date. > > Simon > > > On 10 May 2009, at 02:01, Jianghai Zhu wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestion. I have brought the movie back to frame 1 >> before I save the movie or images. So I still have no fix for this >> yet. >> >> -- Jianghai >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On May 9, 2009, at 8:13 PM, Carlos Huerta wrote: >> >>> Jianghai, >>> >>> I hope I am not over-simplifying your problem, as I had a similar >>> situation as you in saving the sequential images. If you play a >>> movie you made in PyMol using eMovie, it is best to go back to your >>> first Scene by clicking on your Scene button before saving the >>> images. Also, you can use the rewind button on the PyMol tool bar >>> menu. Hope this solves your problem. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> >>> Carlos >>> >>> >>>>>> Jianghai Zhu <j...@idi.harvard.edu> 05/08/09 10:51 PM >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am trying to make a simple movie using eMovie. I rotate the >>> molecule >>> 360 degrees and then move to another region. The movie is fine >>> when I >>> play it in pymol. However, when I tried to save the movie as >>> sequential images or as a movie, the movie won't play until 70ish >>> frames and it won't finish the 360 degree rotation but just move to >>> the other region. So my first 70 or so images are just repeating >>> frame 1. Has anybody know a fix for this? Thanks. >>> >>> -- Jianghai >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! >>> Your >>> production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but >>> thanks to >>> Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW >>> KODAK i700 >>> Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image >>> processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PyMOL-users mailing list >>> PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! >>> Your >>> production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but >>> thanks to >>> Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW >>> KODAK i700 >>> Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image >>> processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PyMOL-users mailing list >>> PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! >> Your >> production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but >> thanks to >> Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW >> KODAK i700 >> Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image >> processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com >> _______________________________________________ >> PyMOL-users mailing list >> PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users
