Alan Lorence
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COW Coin
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First guess is video drivers. Use the “run with software rendering” option in the Start – Programs – particleIllusion” menu (may be in an additional “troubleshooting” menu)
If that stops the bluescreening, then get the latest drivers from your video card manufacturer’s website.
Alan.
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The “end frame” in the playback toolbar is set to 120 by default. Change it to the length of the video you want.
I wouldn’t recommend working on a 3-minute video in particleIllusion. Break it up into smaller clips and work on each of those if possible.
Alan.
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Try “run with software rendering” in the Start – Programs – particleIllusion 3″ menu (may be in a “troubleshooting” menu)
If that works, then you need to update your video drivers.
Alan.
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No. You have to use another application to convert the particleIllusion output into Flash.
Alan.
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Future versions of particleIllusion will use PAR (pixel aspect ratio) so you can use non-square pixels, but only square in 3.0 (and SE).
Alan.
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You can download the “blank” emitter library from the emitter libraries download page of our site, or you can just open up the properties dialog for any library, make sure a folder is selected in the hiererchy, then click the “new emitter” button below the hierarchy.
This creates a “blank” emitter.
Alan.
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Ah, I missed the disintegrate part. I still think the workflow would be to get the animation all done without disintegration in AE, then you can export the last frame of the person (before disintegration) with an alpha channel, then follow Elvis’ tutorial.
(I’ve been thinking about putting together a St. Louis Area particleIllusion user group, but haven’t made much progress on that yet.)
Alan.
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Doesn’t really sound like a particle effect to me — I think you’d get better results using AE.
Alan.
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Jeff: nice work! Part 2 coming soon I hope?
Don’t know what you’ll cover in part 2, but you may want to think about alternate ways of doing this, like using AE’s motion tracker to track the branch tip (or whatever), then importing that into pI3 (you can r-click the layer offset in the hierarchy and “import – position data”). Although I don’t know what you’d do when you need to pick a new reference point.
Alan.