Elvis Deane
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You mean in a case where you are using both intense and non-intense particles, right? The problem is that Vegas doesn’t have a transfer mode similar to Luminescent Premultiply.
But you get nothing as in the image disappears when you put it into unmatted? The alpha channel itself should show up in Vegas so long as you use TGA or PNG and check the Save Alpha box.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
A more dedicated compositing program, like After Effects or Combustion, are your best bets for both keying and putting out image sequences.
In Vegas you have to go under Tools>Scripting>Render Image Sequence. I can’t be certain that it will preserve the alpha, I use After Effects Pro to key any footage, as the tools are more powerful than Vegas’ chromakeyer (Keylight has salvaged a lot of keys that I thought would be problematic, things that Vegas’ chromakeyer just couldn’t handle well). But once particleIllusion 3.02 is out, you’ll be able to use AVIs with alpha, so Vegas will be more compatible if the alpha isn’t coming out now.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
particleIllusion only reads things as having a 1.0 pixel aspect ratio, and that’s the best way to bring footage into it. That would make 720×480 at 1.2 into a 864×480 size.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
If you bought version 3 on CD, there is about 20 minutes of video tutorials to get you started. Online, the best stuff to get going is the on wondertouch’s site under Support>Tutorials, then try the text tutorials “The Basics — Adding emitters over background footage” and “Using particleIllusion with Adobe After Effects”.
Aharon and I offer a two DVD training pack of video tutorials through the Creative Cow that covers just what you’re asking for. You can find some more info on it in my signature below.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
I haven’t got Motion 3 to check, but a thread over in the Cow’s Motion forum has a suggestion on where to relocate the presets.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Try running the Reset Default Settings command from the particleIllusion group in the Start menu.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Just select the first image in the sequence and open it. A dialogue box will pop up that asks you if you want to use that frame, or the entire sequence.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
In the Output Options window, check the Use Audio From Layer box right at the bottom, and make sure to select Layer 1 from the drop down. It should pass the audio along with the video.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
I honestly don’t know Windows Movie Maker enough to be able to tell you how to choose Huffy as an output codec. From the look I had at it, you seem only able to output as a wmv file or a DV AVI. If that’s the case, then you’ll have to render it out as a DV AVI, and convert it according to the instructions at the top of the faq here here.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
That sounds like a codec issue, whatever codec you chose is incompatible with pI. Try to use either Uncompressed, HuffyUV, or XVID at full quality (both which you can download with a quick web search).
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry