Elvis Deane
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I know that HDV is upper, but I don’t know if that differs from real HD.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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pI only does square pixels at this point. If you’re bringing in a background that has a different pixel aspect ratio, you’ll need to do a little pre-processing to get things to look right in the end.
For example if you were editing a DV project, 720×480 with a 0.9 pixel aspect ratio, and wanted to add some pI effects to a shot, you’d export the shot out of your editing program with square pixels (648×480). If you were to bring that finished clip out of pI and into After Effects for example, you would tell AE that the clip has square pixels, and it would stretch the clip out to fit the 720 width of the project.
I’m not sure what the 16×9 widescreen equivalent is. A quick check on Google tells me that its 854×480, but I don’t think that fits with the 1:1.21 which is what I thought the pixel aspect ratio was as well.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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An emitter is a collection of properties that determine how particles look and behave. But that sounds like an abstract science text book description.
An emitter in particleIllusion is really just a visual effect that you can customize. How each emitter looks varies depending on a number of things. You change the speed that its particles move at, how they move, and what they look like to design a new effect.
There are about 1500 emitters that you can download from the wondertouch download page with the full version. The demo has something like 60 emitters.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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It’s probably not the same problem if you don’t have an error pop up.
I can’t bring in uncompressed AVIs from Vegas unless I check a couple of boxes when I’m rendering them out, the clips just come in as blanks, so perhaps you’re having the same problem. These are the settings I have to choose, there may be similar settings in your editing program:
Make sure the Video Format is set to Uncompressed. At the bottom, there should be two checkboxes, Render Alpha Channel, and Create an OpenDML (AVI version 2.0) compatible file. Make sure both of these are checked. If you render with them unchecked, the AVI loads up as a blank in pI.
If you’re using another editing program, this might not help much, but perhaps there are similar settings.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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It’s not a problem that I know of, and I’ve used the manager quite a bit. Is it when you do a specific task in the manager, or does it just happen at random times?
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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I think we’re gonna need a little more info to help you out.
When you say your footage is “16:9 wide screen (res. 720 x 480)”, do you mean that your footage is 720×480 with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, or was it shot with a 16:9 filter on the camera to squeeze the footage? What is the pixel aspect ratio of your footage as well?—
Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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Were you rendering in particleIllusion, or in pIllusionRender? If you’re doing it in particleIllusion, it’ll only render out as large as your desktop’s maximum size. For a size that big, you’ll most likely have to use pIllusionRender.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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The CNV just designates that these emitters were made in 3.0 and converted back into the format that 2.0 can read. So just imagine that the CNV isn’t there.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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Snipped from the pI FAQ:
particleIllusion currently has problems with DV formats. This problem is expected to be fixed in the next update of particleIllusion (3.x). As a work around, you can use VirtualDub to convert your AVI into a codec which particleIllusion can use, or to a sequence of images (PNGs, TGAs, TIFs, etc.).You can also download the Panasonic DV codec, which should allow you to bring DV AVIs into pI, but beware! I’ve found that it makes some video editing programs have trouble importing AVIs encoded with certain other codecs (divx, xvid).
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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All the libraries before pI3 were reorganized into categories (fire, smoke, nature, logos, etc) and included on the software CD.
But other than that, the absolute best way to find emitters is by downloading Kim Cuttle’s spreadsheets of all the emitters at this site
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion