Elvis Deane
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It’s called Matrixy, and it’s in the Tom Granberg folder of the June 2003 library.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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There’s two bird emitters that Aharon made in the user_02_02 library. I think Paul Hansen also made a few bird ones, but I’m not sure where that library is.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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You can grab the update from this page
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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I don’t think Final Cut brings them in as a clip, though things may have changed since the last time I used it. You used to have to open the sequence up in Quicktime Pro, and render out a Quicktime file to import into Final Cut.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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Yeah, Vegas does have an Open Still Image Sequence checkbox when you select the first image of a sequence. It can’t write out image sequences with alphas, but it can import them no problem.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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Are you running the Setup from within the Zip file? I think that has caused a problem for some people in the past, so its best to unzip everything to a temporary folder, and then run it.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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You can animate the Number graph to do this. Set a keyframe at frame 50 with the value of 100 (or whatever it started out at), and then add another keyframe at frame 51 with a value of 0. The particles on screen should continue to go about their business, but nothing new will be born.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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What file format are you using to get your clip from Vegas to pI? If you’re trying to bring in a background with an alpha channel into particleIllusion, you need to do it as an image sequence (PNG, TGA, etc) rather than as an AVI.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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Since pI doesn’t allow you to export the alpha channel of a background image, there’s no way to get one of those loops out directly from pI with an alpha.
You can do the looping in your editing program, by basically using the same technique as in that tutorial. Render the two halves of the sequence out of pI as PNG sequences with alpha channels, place them on two separate layers, and adjust the timing so that they blend the way the tutorial describes.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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For the absolute basics of emitter creation, this tutorial by Alan is the best place to begin. If you’re more interested in taking an existing emitter and adding your own image shapes to it, this one covers that stuff.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion