Hello everyone, Speaking of movies, is there a way to control the fade-in and fade-out rate of objects between scenes (eg. by changing the value of the transparency variable over a series of frames perhaps) using the native pymol movie features? Kristian Rother wrote a great movie script a number of years ago that did this rather nicely. I'm hoping movie features such as this could be done directly through the Pymol GUI someday...
Cheers, Brian Mark On 2011-09-14, at 10:59 AM, Jason Vertrees wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
