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Special Effects
Hi,
I’m making a stop action Godzilla movie with Vegas 6 and wanted to add Godzilla’s “Atomic Breath” (or even just flames,etc.). Two programs were suggested to me: Particle Illusion SE and EffectsLab Pro(FX Home). I downloaded both demos and they both have pluses and minuses. Has anyone used either of these programs and if so could I get some feedback? I can only afford to buy one of these! Thanks. -
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I have no experience with EffectsLab Pro(FX Home), but Particle Illusions is absolutely fantastic. Things like fire from Godzilla’s mouth are super easy to do, and done in minutes. Render times are extremely fast, even in full uncompressed format. It accepts pictures or video with an Alpha channel, so if you shot your subject with a green screen background, you can add any background footage easily in Particle Illusions. Even easier than in Vegas, and that’s saying something. I highly recommend it! You can set your entire city on fire with explosions going off everywhere, with extreme realism. Right now I’m learning a tutorial on how to disintegrate an entire body to dust, in mid-air, after being blasted with a laser beam. All easy things to with this package. Oh, and I highly recommend watching the video tutorials that come on the install disk. The learning curve was extremely hard, until I watched those, now it’s like falling off a log.
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EffectsLab Pro is a great program. The muzzle flash generator is amazing. Particle Illusion is absolutely fantastic though!
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