Elvis Deane
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It depends on your output. If you’re going out to videotape/DVD, you’ll want to keep it 0.9 since that will look oval as you work in Premiere, but should play right on a TV. If you’re going out to the web, then a 1.0 pixel aspect ratio is a better bet.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
There is no smoky dissolve tutorial, because it’s basically the same technique. You know how to disintegrate someone, you know how to turn them into smoke. The major difference is rather than hiding the actor on one frame, I used After Effects to fade myself out for the smoke ones (and reversed the clip to pull myself together).
The smokydissolve emitter is in the July 2006 library.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Could be that the pixel aspect ratio of your Premiere project is set to 0.9 by default, and pI’s stuff is square pixel. Don’t have Premiere here to check that, but that’d be my guess.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
In the Layers panel, click on the second box (the double circle) to hide the emitter and control objects on a layer.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
1. I would say that that’s more of a colour correction or matte painting task, one to do in a compositing program. You might use pI to add to some atmosphere (clouds, rain, etc), but it wouldn’t be where I’d start.
2. Careful emitter placement. You could use a Blocker to cut off the bottoms of buildings from being covered in particles and just use a few big fire emitters to place behind them, but I’d think it much more effective to use a lot of small emitters and position them in places that would have more flames, like in the windows of each building.
3. The two actors were shot against a greenscreen and a background added in. Andrew Kramer has a tutorial that shows how that effect was done step-by-step in After Effects, it’s on his Creative Cow Master Series DVD (there should be an ad for it on the sidebar).
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
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What codec are you using to output to AVI? That’s the only part of the process that should have an effect on the quality of the final image. Try this thread on some suggestions of codecs to try,
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Besides importing an oval as your background and aligning your emitter’s position to points along its edge over time, if you have one of the compositing or 3D programs that pI can import position data from, you can animate the path in there.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Yes, most of those effects look like they were done in particleIllusion. One of the explosion ones was a Super Emitter, so could only be done in 3, but the dust ones alone can be done using any of pISE’s dust or smoke emitters.
For a little more advanced disintegration effect, check this tutorial out (it is for version 3, not SE though).
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Check the Save Alpha box in the Output Options after selecting a format that supports alpha channels (PNG, TIF, TGA)
It’s all covered in detail here
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry