[Alan Lorence]

[Aharon Rabinowitz] “many many preset effects (1400+)”

It’s actually over 1800. I counted (using a Search) when I built the catalog page. Feel free to check this (anybody) and let me know if I made a mistake.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

We’re still working on pIllusion AE, and you should expect to see it early 2007 or sooner.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

particleIllusion will be 3D in version 4.0 (probably late 2007).

pIllusion AE (the long-delayed plug-in version for After Effects) is still in development, and will probably be released early 2007. It will be based on version 3.0 of the engine.

I doubt that you’ll ever see particleIllusion working in 3D in Combustion unless Combustion’s AE plug-in support is updated so pIllusion AE will be able to work there (and once pIllusion AE uses the 4.0 engine, which as I said won’t be released until late 2007 or so).

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Please check again if you can send email to info and support at wondertouch. If not, please post the error message text you get here. For example, here’s the error text I got when I tried sending to a made-up email address:

—– The following addresses had permanent fatal errors —–

(reason: 550 Host unknown)

—– Transcript of session follows —–
550 5.1.2 … Host unknown (Name server: wworgg.com: host not found)

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Email wondertouch support.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Can you post an image of the river? That would definitely help me.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

There’s a utility called “Sherlock – The Codec Detective” that you can download to see if any of your codecs are “broken”:

https://www.free-codecs.com/download/Sherlock_The_Codec_Detective.htm

That might help.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Actually, I just tried Sherlock, and it lists all of my codecs, and showed me that one of them was broken (I think because it was a time-limited demo version that expired).

Why doesn’t Windows have something like this built-in?

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

What stage size are you using? If it’s something weird, or if the stage window is not large enough to show the entire stage area at 100% zoom, then the render size being passed to the codecs may be causing one of them to have a problem. As a test, make the stage size 320×240 and then try it.

If it still crashes, then you might want to try this:
https://www.free-codecs.com/download/Sherlock_The_Codec_Detective.htm

I haven’t used “Sherlock – The Codec Detective”, but it sounds useful.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

There seems to be some problem with pIRender in the AVI area. I just checked it myself (I don’t use pIRender very often), and I get an error message about the “H263 codec maximum size is ___ x____, please choose another codec”, but the AVI options still displays after that. Then, I notice that at least one of my codecs is not listed there.

I thought that maybe the project that was loaded had a weird stage size which wasn’t compatible with some codecs, so I unchecked “autoload” and restarted pIRender so it loads with no settings, but it gave the same results.

The only thing I can suggest is to render an image sequence with pIRender, then use another app to make it into a movie (if needed).

Alan.
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