Alan Lorence
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Since you have up-to-date video drivers, do the following:
1) launch pIllusionRender manually
2) Click the “options” button
3) Uncheck “use hardware acceleration”
4) Close pIRender
Now try your render again — it should work fine.
Ideally you don’t want to turn off hardware acceleration, but it sounds like the only choice in your case. You may want to see if the video drivers you’re using right now are “beta” drivers, and if they are, switch back to the latest released (non-beta) drivers.
Also, if your desktop resolution is larger than 1920 x 1080, you should be able to avoid pIRender completely by maximizing your pI3 application window so it fills your desktop.
Alan.
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Have you looked at any of the video tutorials?
particleIllusion 3.0 Basics 01
https://www.wondertouch.com/default.asp?loadContent=vid_tut_basics_01.aspThere are links to more at the bottom of that page.
Alan.
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I’m not familiar with the software, but from their website:
“Simply drag and drop your photos and videos onto the Slide List to add them to your show. Each slide can have an unlimited number of layers meaning you can create unique photo montages, add borders to images and more. You can even edit your video clips directly in ProShow Producer by using the built-in video trimmer.”
So it sounds like you can just render a movie (AVI) and add it to a slide.
Alan.
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Use Blockers?
If you can be more specific on what you’re trying to do, I may be able to give more details.
Alan.
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This may help:
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I’m guessing that you are running Vista or XP with Data Execution
Prevention (DEP) enabled for all apps. The StackHash_* module is the
signature for accesses to guard pages which is what you get with DEP
enabled. You can try this out to verify that the problem is truly DEP
related. Right click on ‘My Computer’ and choose Properties. In the
Advanced tab/panel, select the “Settings” button in the Performance
pane. Choose the “Data Execution Prevention” tab and switch DEP so
that it is enabled only for essential Windows programs or add particleIllusion to the exception.
—Alan.
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I like to hear more details on this — please email support at wondertouch dot com.
Alan.
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Is transparency for the layer turned on? (No red X through the “T” icon in the layer)
Alan.
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There seems to be some quirk in how pIRender is being called and sometimes it doesn’t let you check the “save alpha” option.
So, run pIRender manually. It should still have the right project file and output settings, but check the “Save Alpha” option. You probably should uncheck the “auto load” option too — that might be the thing that’s causing problems.
It should render correctly in pIRender, and hopefully next time you render from pI3 everything will be fine.
Alan.
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Ok, there’s your problem. 10,000 is the max.
Do you really have a 10,000 frame long single shot that you need particles in? Can you break your clip up into smaller sections? You’ll get much better performance out of particleIllusion if you do.
Alan.
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What are the start and end frame numbers you’re using in the output options dialog? That determines the range of frames you’ll output. If the end frame is 2, there’s your problem.
Alan.