Elvis Deane
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Check the post titled “Two Problems” just below this one.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
1. There is no maximum frame limit, though if you have a very, very long scene, things will get slower as time goes on.
2. From the FAQ:
particleIllusion does not support DV AVIs at this time. You have 2 options — the first is to convert the DV AVI into a non-DV AVI or image sequence that particleIllusion can load. If you don’t have a tool that can do this conversion, Rad Video Tools (https://www.radgametools.com), converts between several different formats and is free.The second option is to install a DV codec that will allow particleIllusion to read DV AVIs. There are several commercial and free codecs available — the Panasonic DV codec is a free one. Do a websearch for “Panasonic DV codec” and you’ll find several sites with this codec and installation instructions. Note that some users have reported that the Panasonic DV codec causes problems with other codecs on their system.
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If you’re using Vegas, there are a number of solutions listed here as well.—
Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Yes, this is only for Macs.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
The issue is that pI only works in square pixels. You’ll have to render at 648×486, and then tell AE the footage is square pixel in the interpretation settings. That will unsqueeze to the proper size.
Strange, I was just at 111 Peter St yesterday. I had no idea it was such a media building.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
You can tweak any of those trailers by going into the Size over Life graph of its particle types, and changing them around. If they have large heads and small tails, then that means their initial values at 0.0 will be high, and will get smaller until 1.0 (the end of each particles life). Just reverse that to get a small start and a large bottom.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
divx will watermark, you have to buy the full package to avoid them. xvid shouldn’t watermark, it being open-source.
Huffy UV or Uncompressed would be your best bet in terms of quality, but the file size will be huge. If you’re converting it to FLV in the end though, that’s probably a good path to take (going to xvid and then flv gives you twice the chance to get artifacts/distortions in your final image).
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
What codec did you use to compress the AVI? I’ve seen some funny things with some codecs. Could also be a video driver issue. Is your laptop card also ATI, are you running the same drivers on both?
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
There’s a step-by-step tutorial on that effect specifically right here
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Check the bottom section of this tutorial, marked “From particleIllusion to Vegas”
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
An image sequence is just a series of images, named sequentially, that contains all the frames of the video. They’d be named something like fridge_0001.png, fridge_0002.png, etc. Most editing and compositing programs have the option to save out a sequence instead of an AVI or Quicktime clip. When bringing them into particleIllusion, just select one image, and it will detect the sequence when you hit Ok.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry