[Alan Lorence]

When I first looked into this a couple of years ago, the main problem was this: any flash file that I output could be reverse-compiled into a flash source file, which then people could freely distribute and modify. So basically a relatively small number of people would pay for this feature (by buying pIllusion), but then every Flash developer would benefit from it.

Didn’t seem like a good idea to me.

If somebody could convince me otherwise, or if there are ways of preventing reverse-compiling (or disassembling) now, please let me know.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

It worked for me, although I have not downloaded the film yet.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Take a look at this page:
https://www.wondertouch.com/se_info.asp

Also, the bottom of this page:
https://www.wondertouch.com/pi3_osx.asp

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Yes to both.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

If you can get this to happen quite often, switch to software rendering (use
the Start – Programs – particleIllusion 3.0 – run with software rendering
option) and see if the problems remain. If not, then it’s most likely a
video driver issue and you’ll need to update your video drivers from your
graphics card manufacturer.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

There was a slight change in the data format from AE 6.5 to AE 7.0. I suggest copying the data to a text file, then deleting every line except the lines that contain the position data. Each line should be in the format:

Frame_number X_pos Y_pos

Then you should be able to load it into pI3.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

I’m not sure what you mean by “decreasing quality a lot”.

particleIllusion (Windows) will only be able to import DV if you have installed a DV codec. If you don’t have one, you’ll get the “AVI Request Format Error” message. Since you’re not getting this, I assume you have one installed.

Since you say it crashes, can you give more details? I’m guessing that the file you’re loading is too big — like you’re trying to load a 30-minute clip into pIllusion. I suggest breaking it up into short clips, then loading those.

Also, if you’re concerned about quality, the movies you load into pIllusion should be used for reference only, and you should be saving the pIllusion output as a TGA sequence with alpha channel. Your final compositing (of the pIllusion effects and the original movie) should be done in a separate compositing app.

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[Alan Lorence]

If you’re talking about the pIllusionBench results page, the values are time in seconds — lower is faster.

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[Alan Lorence]

No, it’s not, so 50% is all you’ll see on a dual-core system.

1900 particles is not a lot. On my old Inspiron 8500 laptop (you can find the specs online) if I add the “Boom 3 (Tom Granberg)” emitter — I think that one is in the demo library — at frame 120 there are about 22000 particles and I’m getting 10 fps.

The first thing to try is to get the latest drivers for your video card from ATI.com.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Blockers will slow things down a lot too. You can confirm that it’s the blocker slowing things down by deleting it and seeing if things speed up significantly. You can use UNDO to put it back.

Alan.
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