Alan Lorence
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You’ll have to write down the library names from the search, then back in particleIllusion 3 use the Library Manager.
This video explains it:
https://www.wondertouch.com/default.asp?loadContent=vid_tut_favorites_lib.aspAlan.
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You can’t save search results. You’ll never have this ability in particleView. You will have this ability in particleIllusion 4.
You cannot move emitters in Windows Explorer — you can only move library files.
Alan.
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As I’ve said before (several times):
Don’t use uncompressed AVI in particleIllusion (or ever really).
There’s no need for it. Ever. In any application. Use a free lossless codec like Huffyuv or Lagarith instead. You’ll have no problems in pIllusion, your files will be smaller, load faster, transfer faster, etc.
Alan.
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Why not use one of the better emitters (I think) in emitters_07_06? The fuse emitter is only notable because of the fuse and delay — if you don’t want the fuse or the delay, there are better choices.
Alan.
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As a test, try it without the blockers and see if it still crashes.
If it does still crash, remove any images or movies from the layers and try again.
Then remove images/movies AND blockers.
I’m guessing it’s a blocker issue. If it still crashes with just emitters I’ll be surprised.
Alan.
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if you’re clicking in the graph window, you need to r-click on an existing data point, or select a data point first.
But it sounds to me like you’re not right-clicking. If you have a 1-button Mac mouse, you need to ctrl-click.
Left-clicking in the graph window creates a data key, which is what I assume you mean by “box”.
Alan.
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Does this happen with any emitter you use, or a specific one only? What changes are you making?
I’m guessing that you’re either:
1) working at a relatively high frame number. If you load your whole movie and then try to add an emitter 5 minutes into the movie, you’re going to have problems. Break your movie into short clips that need the particle effects, add the effects to the short clips, then recombine in your editor.
2) making a change to the emitter that adds a HUGE number of particles. Maybe with an area emitter? Any emitter that is not a point emitter, I suggest cranking the “number” percentage down to 1 percent or so, then slowly raise it until you have the number of particles you want. Any emitter other than a point emitter (area, line, circle) will add more particles based on the area or length of the emitter.
Alan.
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It’s just not that simple, and I don’t have the time or patience to work through it all right now to give you an answer.
At some time in the next few months I may be looking at this code anyway and can possibly answer then, but right now I just can’t answer.
Sending or posting the code is not an option.
Alan.
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If you have a 30 frame video, does pI3 see it as 15 frames long?
Is it a fields issue? (Try rendering in AE without fields and see if that fixes it.)
Alan.