Web: Movie

Displays a movie from a series of images or a volume. There are two choices:

Small images.

First displays a series of small images in a montage. Then pans thru the montage to show a movie.

Large images.

Displays a series of 2D or 3D (volume) images directly in a movie. Can step thru the movie in forwards and backwards direction. A toggle for twoways sets the movie in to run "forwards then backwards" through the image series.
For volumes, the axis of the view, the displayed region, and normalization by slice can be set.

Creating interleaved movie from two series of surface views.

• Use the Web Surface. operation to create the desired surface movies. Can specify initial starting view, threshold, rotation angle, number of views, initial file number, etc.
• Use following SPIDER batch file to create an interleaved volume from the two surface movies.

SPIDER Batch file

; Interleave two consecutively numbered image series into a volume
; Sept 13 2001   ArDean Leith
;
MO 3                     ; Create a blank volume of desired size
  merged_movie           ; Volume name
  390 390                ; x & y size
  72                     ; Number of frames (Total number of images)
  B                      ; Blank volume
  0.0                    ; Voxel value
;
[slice] = 0
DO [n]=0,35              ; Number of frames in each series
      [slice]=[slice]+1  ; Increment slice number
      ;
      SK R               ; Put image into volume
      merged_movie       ; Volume
      movie_one{***[n]}  ; Image
      [slice]            ; Slice
      *                  ; Finished
      ;
      [slice]=[slice]+1  ; Increment slice number
      ;
      SK R               ; Put image into volume
      merged_movie       ; Volume
      movie_two{***[n]}  ; Image
      [slice]            ; Slice
      *                  ; Finished
      ;
ENDDO

• Use movie -- Large Images operation to display the alternating surface movie.