Alan Lorence
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If you r-click in the layers window you’ll see some view options. You probably want to uncheck “current objects only”.
You can’t lock a layer or emitter. You can disable an emitter, but that won’t help you I think.
Alan.
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We will be releasing a CS5-compatible version of pIAE.
pI3 can be installed on multiple machines as long as they are personally owned by you and you will be the only one using particleIllusion on them.
pIAE licensing is currently the same (limit 2 machines if above conditions are met), but using a different licensing scheme. We’ll be changing licensing schemes again shortly to make it more flexible.
Alan.
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What codec are you rendering your AVI in? I suggest DivX or xvid, Huffyuv, or Lagarith. Make sure you’re using an 8-bit codec too, not something that supports 16bpp or higher, which is unsupported in particleIllusion.
I’ve never seen the “movie bitmap not populated” error, so I expect it’s related to the codec you’re using.
You can always render as JPG image sequence and use that in particleIllusion.
You’ll probably use the footage in particleIllusion as reference only, then remove it and do your final render of particles alone with alpha, for final compositing in Vegas.
Alan.
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Good thinking – thanks! As a follow-up, Feb emitters are late, but coming soon. =)
Alan.
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There have been a couple of threads here about this already:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/23/862149
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/23/862131
Alan.
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Sorry, but it’s not possible in pIAE at this time. You can only edit the particle images in particleIllusion 3.0, save them to a library, then load that library in pIAE.
Alan.
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If the render is happening in particleIllusion itself and not in pIRender, then use the “adjust frame” (Is that the right name of the button?) button in the “output options” dialog.
If pIRender is doing the rendering, then you’re out of luck right now since the current version of pIRender for Mac doesn’t have a way to adjust that.
Also, I’ll remind people that if you’re running 10.6, the autoupdate dialog (the “check for updates” window) probably isn’t working. The easiest way to check is to rename one of your emitter libraries, then do a check for updates and see if it detects it as missing. If not, then the check is probably not working.
Alan.
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Yes, we slipped a little on the release date for pIAE Mac, but very soon now. =)
Alan.
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