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  • Trapcode Particular – Freeze frame crashes AE

    Posted by Chris Vo on November 17, 2014 at 6:15 pm

    Hi,

    I’m making a simple cloud effect with Trapcode Particular. I’d like to have the clouds stagnant (stop Particular from emitting new particles) so I precomped the clouds and enabled a Time Remap>Hold Keyframe which results in AE CC 2014 crashing.

    Any ideas why this is happening? Any suggestions/workarounds would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Chris

    AE CC 2014 13.1.0.111
    Mac OSX 10.9.5
    Trapcode Particular 2.2.3

    Michael Szalapski replied 11 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Michael Szalapski

    November 17, 2014 at 6:18 pm

    I would suggest animating the time parameter in Particular instead of what you said. This allows you to move through the scene with the clouds frozen if you wanted to.

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  • Chris Vo

    November 17, 2014 at 6:44 pm

    Thanks for the reply Michael.

    Can you elaborate on how to set the time parameter for the Particular layer? Is it in the effect controls or are you referring to the layer properties? When I open up the time dialogue for the layer properties it only gives me two options.

  • Michael Szalapski

    November 17, 2014 at 6:47 pm

    In Particular.
    Under Physics>Physics Time Factor

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  • Chris Vo

    November 17, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    Awesome, thanks!

  • Michael Szalapski

    November 17, 2014 at 7:06 pm

    No problem!

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