Re: [PyMOL] RE: making a movie from saved scenes

[Dirk K. <dir...@ps...>]

Dear Warren,

this little thread points nicely to the major problem that I have quite 
often with PyMol: it is a really powerful program, but the documentation 
is somewhere scattered between various incomplete sources (manual, 
reference list, wiki, bulletin board, user home pages, ...). This makes 
it very difficult for the average user like me to make full use of 
PyMol's capabilities. I would _really_ prefer to have a good and 
up-to-date documentation available, at least for the last official 
version, rather than more and more improvements with poor documentation.

Best regards,

Dirk.

Seth Harris wrote:
> Hi Sun,
> 
> Warren (and others?) has posted some text before about this. A simple
> template for it is as follows with the key being that mview interpolate
> command at the end. This works, but I haven't been through it recently to
> remind myself of the nuances of the animate=0 options and the view=0 options
> at their respective occurences, but if you play around with it I think
> you'll find it a treat.  Don't forget that the mset 1 x180 should be
> replaced by however many total frames you want in the movie, and repeat the
> little blocks for however many scenes you have. If you don't mind equal
> sized steps between scenes you can automate the whole thing in a little
> python loop for X number of scenes. Also replace 001, 002, etc. with
> whatever your scenes are stored as. Use the mview store, YY to pinpoint at
> which frame you want that scene to be set.
> 
> mset 1 x180
> scene 001, animate=0
> mview store, 1
> scene 002, animate=0
> mview store, 60
> mview interpolate
> mdo 1: scene 001, view=0
> mdo 2: scene 002, view=0
> 
> There are other non-scene based movie mechanisms that allow fancier fades
> and things, but this way is certainly much easier to work with.
> 
> -Seth
> 


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