Alan Lorence
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There’s no reason why the demo and full Mac versions should behave differently. Please email support at wondertouch and let’s see if we can figure this out.
Alan.
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Those codecs need to be installed. Just Google “Lagarith codec” and “Huffy UV codec” and you’ll find plenty of sites to download from, and instructions for installing.
Alan.
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The rewind button behavior is normal — it does that by design (once rewinds to whatever frame you started playback at, then again rewinds to frame 1, etc.)
The animation stopping at frame 120 and then only play button active… sounds weird, but might be explainable. What emitter are you using? Do you have playback set to stop at the end frame or repeat (loop)? If it’s set to stop at the end frame, and the end frame is 120, and you have a complex emitter or scene, it can take a few seconds for all the particles to be calculated at frame 120.
I still don’t know about the “Manual” folder. Did you try copying it from the other computer (I forgot to view the “entire thread” so I can’t check back in your earlier posts).
Alan.
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Not a feature in the current version, but I’ll add it to the list for possible inclusion in future releases.
Alan.
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I’ve just tried it on my Leopard machine (10.5.2) and it works fine.
Having the Manual folder “locked” may not matter — can you access the docs from the “Help” menu within particleIllusion?
Have you tried copying the “default.il3” file from the other machine (the “good” install) to this “problem” machine?
Alan.
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I only suggested upgrading (the upgrade from 2.0 to 3.0 is only $75) because there are tons of features that 3.0 has that 2.0 doesn’t that will let you do much more, and let you do them faster. People on 3.0 have had the exact same issue with uncompressed that you do (don’t know about the 3.0.2+ versions though — we updated the movie system and uncompressed may work fine for people now).
As far as using uncompressed, why would you want to? There are free completely lossless codecs such as Huffy UV and Lagarith that will give you pixel-for-pixel identical results to uncompressed at much smaller file sizes (sometimes dramatically smaller depending on your footage). You should give them a try.
Alan.
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Forgot about that part. I think you created a reference graph. R-click in the graph window and you can turn it off.
Alan.
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I suggest deleting the particleIllusion 3 folder from your Applications folder, then deleting the “pIllusion_3.prefs” file from your Preferences folder. Then delete the “particleIllusion xxxx.pkg” file from your Library / Receipts folder.
Then restart the computer and install again.
Alan.
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Are they saved as uncompressed AVIs? pIllusion has always had issues with uncompressed on some machines.
(You really should upgrade to the latest version if you really are using 2.x still)
Alan.
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I just answered this in the other thread.
Those preferences are always greyed out in the Mac version — they’re for compatibility with old OpenGL cards that no Macs ever had.
You load a video by double-clicking the empty thumbnail in the layers window. Are you saying you’ve done this and the videos don’t show in the stage window?
Alan.