Elvis Deane
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Hit the red Record button that’s in the Play controls, that’ll bring up an interface to save the file as an AVI or Quicktime.
Have a look at the Quickstart, which is the fastest way to get all the basics of the interface.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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You are correct, it’s only in 2 and 3, not in SE.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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It’s a bit difficult to say without seeing the scene. A couple of things to check:
-In Area Emitter Mask Options, make sure Hold Frames is 1.
-Is the emitter centered in the Stage? Since the location of the image you load in as a mask is tied to the emitter’s position, if the emitter isn’t centered on the stage, it won’t match that same sequence were it loading in as a background image.
-If you remove the sequence from the mask, does the Stage fill up with particles?
Does the alpha channel that you exported from Premiere have a very large white (opaque) area in the alpha channel?
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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Make sure you’re right-clicking on the emitter object in the Stage, not its name in the Hierarchy window. The Replace command is only available in the Stage’s right-click menu.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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Just curious why the black background wouldn’t be best in some cases. Saving out the effects against a black background with an alpha channel makes it pretty easy to re-composite in other programs, especially when you check the Remove Black BG box in the Render options.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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I use After Effects Pro. How long did it take? No idea, probably an hour for the After Effects stuff, another to create all the emitters in particleIllusion. Keying the green out can take hours or no time at all, depending on your footage and how well your greenscreen was lit (the more shadows on it, the more hassle).
There is a way to key in particleIllusion. This thread from two weeks ago has some info on tha.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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That emitter is in the July 2006 library (the most recent one), called Smokey Dissolve Get Color.
It’s really no different than the other disintegrate tutorial. The main differences are the use of Forces and the animated particle shape.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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Many non-linear editing programs, like Premiere, Final Cut Pro, and Vegas, have keying filters that will do the job. If you have one of those, you probably don’t need a compositor for this particular effect. Look under the Video Filters section of whatever editing program you have for words like chromakey or keyer.
After Effects and Combustion are good compositors to check out. You can find them on the Adobe and Autodesk sites (and the Cow has forums on both if you need help).
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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This thread explains all the possibilities of extending a logo’s life. Try what’s described in Aharon’s post, duplicating the emitter.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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You could always put some Forces at the edge of the stage pointing back in, with a very low life. That way when the particles reached the edge of the stage, they’d get blown gently back in the other direction.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion