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From: Josh Vermaas (joshua.vermaas_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 18 2020 - 20:54:48 CDT

Huh, that's weird. Admittedly I'm not very familiar with the built-in
movie-making capabilities anymore, since I just render each frame
individually with render commands and then stitch them together with
ffmpeg. I have no clue why it would only pick out the upper left part of
your system during the rendering process.

-Josh

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:41 AM Seibold, Steve Allan <stevesei_at_ku.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Josh
>
> I set the display at “2” . The result is shown in “VMD_screen.png”. Then,
> I made the mpg movie. When I opened it as an mpg, I get the “move_mpg.png”.
> The movie runs through the trajectories, but only a small segment of the
> protein is seen…
>
>
>
> Thanks, Steve
>
>
>
> *From:* Josh Vermaas <joshua.vermaas_at_gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 18, 2020 12:17 PM
> *To:* Seibold, Steve Allan <stevesei_at_ku.edu>
> *Cc:* vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> *Subject:* Re: vmd-l: Movie Maker in VMD
>
>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
>
>
> What does this actually look like? Movies are series of images, so
> whatever you saw on the screen as the trajectory was being rendered is what
> you are going to see in the movie, modulo some rendering settings. There
> are a number of things that *could* cause you to only see some of the
> protein are having a screen height that is too large (the default is 6, I
> usually use 2.) Screen height is adjustable from the display settings menu
> (Display->Display settings on the main menu).
>
>
>
> -Josh
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 10:12 AM Seibold, Steve Allan <stevesei_at_ku.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> My apologies to who received my earlier message. I believe I previously
> sent the below question to the incorrect address of vmd…
>
>
>
> I am using VMD version 1.9.2 on Ubuntu 16.04. When I make a movie from my
> trajectories (from NAMD dcd files) showing the whole protein in the VMD
> screen, for some reason the mpg movie file only contains only a piece of
> the protein and not the whole structure. I must be missing some setting.
> Could someone pleases make a suggestion?
>
>
>
> Thanks, Steve
>
>
>
>