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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 19 2009 - 23:45:17 CST

Brian,
  If you want to use the movie maker to do this, you can write a script
that gets called per-frame, using the "User Defined" movie type,
as described here:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/

Have a look at that and the example script to get the basic idea.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:30:20PM -0800, Brian Kidd wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm interested in creating a movie of a protein that can show
> different levels of detail within the same trajectory. Specifically,
> I'd like to run the first 25% of the trajectory using cartoon rending
> with the protein colored a single color (e.g. blue). For the next 25%
> of the trajectory, I'd like to highlight specific regions by coloring
> them differently. Finally, for the last half of the trajectory, I'd
> like to add licorice representation of specific residues to highlight
> some of the atomic interactions that are important. Is there a way to
> do this currently?
>
> Thanks,
> -Brian 

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