MovieSchool 4
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Simple Movie Examples
We now the ability to make some pretty simple, but cool movies. So, let's try a few.
Multiple Zooming
Let's try making a movie where we zoom into each ligand that's not water. In order to make this movie, I had to find a protein with suitable ligands, so you can do the same for your own protein. Just replace the hard-coded residue numbers.
Goal: Make a movie that zoom into the three ligands, stays on that ligand for 2 seconds, then moves to the next. I also want smooth zoom out at the end. Don't let the length of this movie script throw you off, you've seen all of the movie commands and the initial commands are just loading the and making it look good.
# setup PyMOL for the movie reinitialize set matrix_mode, 1 set movie_panel, 1 # load the PDB, make selections for the ligands and # make the protein look snazzy. #load /spc/pdb/2jep.pdb fetch 2jep, async=0 remove resn HOH orient select l1, c. A and i. 1397 select l2, c. A and i. 1396 select l3, c. B and i. 1396 as cartoon color grey show sticks, het color magnesium, het # At 30 FPS this is then a 16 second movie. # We look at the structure for 2 seconds, zoom in to each ligand # and look at it for another 2 seconds, then, zoom out and look again # at everything for another 2 seconds. # initialize the 480 frame movie mset 1 x480 # zoom all ('scene #1') frame 1 mview store # stay here for 2 seconds frame 60 mview store # zoom on ligand 1 ('scene #2') frame 120 zoom l1 mview store # stay here for 2 seconds frame 180 mview store # zoom on ligand 2 ('scene #3') frame 240 zoom l2 mview store # stay for 2 seconds frame 300 mview store # zoom to ligand 3 ('scene #4') frame 360 zoom l3 mview store # stay for 2 seconds frame 420 mview store # zoom out ('back to scene #1') frame 480 zoom mview store # interpolate the frames mview reinterpolate # play the awesome movie! mplay # stop when you want # mstop
Animating an Alignment
# setup PyMOL for the movie reinitialize set matrix_mode, 1 set movie_panel, 1 # load the PDBs fetch 1cll 1ggz, async=0 # orient the scene as cartoon orient # make 100-frame movie mset 1 x100 # goto frame 1 frame 1 # store the camera position and object # positions in frame 1 mview store mview store, object=1cll mview store, object=1ggz # goto frame 90 frame 90 # align the two proteins super 1cll, 1ggz # we rezoom to center the camera on the # two aligned proteins zoom # store the camera positions mview store # store the new object position(s) mview store, object=1cll mview store, object=1ggz # have PyMOL stitch together the scenes. mview reinterpolate mview reinterpolate, object=1cll mview reinterpolate, object=1ggz # rewind frame 1 # get some popcorn! :-) mplay
BB Inspector
This movie will walk down the alpha carbons inspecting each one for 1/3 of a second. :-) What would be cool would be to calculate the difference vector from i. n+1 to i. n and then walk that path. Anyhow, here you go:
# usual setup reinitialize set matrix_mode, 1 set movie_panel, 1 # fetch 1CLL to work on; this will only work on 1cll # or any other protein with 144 AAs starting at resi 4. fetch 1cll, async=0 as lines, n. C+O+N+CA color marine zoom i. 4+5 # 10 frames per AA mset 1 x1440 mview store # this code maps the zooming of # one AA and it's neighbor to 10 frames python for x in range(0,144): cmd.frame((10*x)+1) cmd.zoom( "n. CA and i. " + str(x) + "+" + str(x+1)) cmd.mview("store") python end # goto the end and interpolate all the frames frame 288 mview store mview reinterpolate # I know, it's not smooth & cool like the other ones mplay
