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From: Ajasja Ljubetič (ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 04 2016 - 05:54:32 CDT

Hi!

Probably the Trajectory Smoothing Window size (under Graphic
representations->Trajectory) was set to something higher than 0.

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Best,
Ajasja

On 4 November 2016 at 11:26, Kevin C Chan <cchan2242-c_at_my.cityu.edu.hk>
wrote:

> Dear Users,
>
> I am currently making some MD movies. I looked at some examples on the web
> (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSi5-y6NHjY from TCBG UIUC).
> However, when I made mine, the movement of particles seem very jumpy due to
> the frame intervals (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO9-k_HXy0c),
> especially for the lipid tails. I thought reducing frame intervals could
> improve but still not working for 20ps per frame, which already made my
> movie >50000 frames. It looks like the movements have been interpolated or
> smoothened in some ways.
>
> I know that some of the great movies on webs were made by users here, so I
> am asking if any post-modifications have been applied to the trajectory. Or
> you are just using very very small frame intervals.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kevin
> City University of Hong Kong
>


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