Alan Lorence
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If you check it frame-by-frame in pI, it’s correct — there’s no difference between rendering and preview.
I suspect it may be a framerate issue. The easiest way to avoid this: don’t output AVI. Just output an image sequence.
Also, the feature you’re looking for is called “replace”, and *is* covered in the docs. Just r-click on the stage emitter and select “replace”.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
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GenArts, Inc.
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Here’s what I would do:
1) output your video as a DivX AVI or something similar. You’ll be using it for reference in pI3 only, so it doesn’t need to be great quality.
2) If it plays back fast enough in pI3 (note that you may never get real-time playback at HD res in pI3 as it’s not really optimized for that), use it, add your emitters, then when it’s ready move to step 5.
3) If it’s not fast enough, scale it down in your editor — half-size or whatever. Then use that in pI3, setting your stage size in pI3 to the smaller size of your video. Setup all of your emitters, then when they’re perfect…
4) Use the “scale project” function in pI3 to scale your emitters and every back up to HD size.
5) Turn off your background video (click the “bg” icon in the layers window) then render just your particles with alpha. Use a format that can save alpha (AVI using HuffYUV or Lagarith codecs, or PNG image sequence).
6) Load the rendered AVI or PNG sequence into your editor, layering it above your original video.
Hope this helps.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
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Just a reminder — the fact that it may be called a “Pro Emitter” doesn’t mean that it has anything to do with GenArts or wondertouch or our existing Pro Emitters.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
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Yeah, I don’t typically read the forum over the weekend — apparently nobody else did either.
I don’t know why HuffYUV wouldn’t show up in Vegas. You could try Lagarith, but the other option is to just render an image sequence like PNG. I don’t use Vegas so I can’t say how well it handles image sequences, so that may not be better.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
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Depends on the effect and what you mean by “turn off”.
1) Try the “active” graph.
2) Try stepping the “number” graph down to zero to stop creating particles.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
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That one emitter was 10 MB? If you add it to the stage and save it as a project file, it should zip to something that’s pretty small. May want to try that too.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
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The previous poster was talking about the standalone application version of particleIllusion.
In After Effects you should be able to use pI on your farm without activation. I assume you mean AE CS5, not AE 5.0, right?
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
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Try the “run with software rendering option” in the Start menu particleIllusion menu. If that fixes it, you need to update your video drivers.
Is the stage window large enough to show the entire 1024 x 768 stage at 100% zoom? particleIllusion SE is WYSIWYG — if the stage window doesn’t show the whole stage, you won’t get the whole stage.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
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That’s true — this was an issue in older versions but was fixed in one of the updates. (Thanks for the reminder about this Ra-ey)
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
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What do you mean by “stinks”?
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com