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  • Justin Productions

    October 1, 2006 at 4:25 pm

    Of course you can post a link.

    First, create a new document, anywhere on your computer, and let’s say you call it ” Dust Cloud Anim. ”

    In Particle Illusion, when your animation, in the Preview Window, is complete, and then you want to render it, do these steps:

    Click on the red dot (Save Output)
    Find your ” Dust Cloud Anim. ” folder, and double-click on it
    Name your file (let’s say ” Dust “) and choose the *.TGA format
    Click “Save”
    – In the window box that just appeared, check “Save Alpha”
    – Two other options appeared; check “Create non-intensive alpha” and uncheck “Remove black bg from RGB channels”.
    Click OK.

    In After Effects,

    Double-click in the Project Window.
    Go to your ” Dust Cloud Anim. ” folder by double-clicking on it
    Click once on the first TGA picture inthe folder. If you named your file ” Dust “, then click on ” Dust-10001 ” and at the bottom of this window box, click ” Targa Sequence “.
    Click OK.
    – Bring this in a new comp.

    Hope that helped.

    Justin Productions
    Tangerin01@hotmail.com
    Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional

  • Borghi

    October 2, 2006 at 10:25 pm

    it worked! thanks!
    but now i have other question about the same item.
    what if i make my dust cloud with afterfx, lets say, using particle playground with some gaussian blur to simulate dust, and want it to have the same effect over the bg than the particle illusion cloud got?

    by the way: here’s a link to a AE animation i did in 2005:
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=PxhYpDgw1_Q

    and here’s the same movie in great divx quality:
    https://borghi1.free.fr/espectro/el_espectro_del_bosque.avi

    thanks and see you

  • Justin Productions

    October 3, 2006 at 4:01 pm

    Start a new thread.

    Justin Productions
    Tangerin01@hotmail.com
    Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional

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