Elvis Deane
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There’s never a quick way to mask a movie. The best methodology I find when working with a movie is instead of going frame-by-frame and moving the whole Blocker, go every 5 frames (Ctrl+Right Arrow Key) and move just one point. Then go back to the start and move the second point every 5 frames, etc. It cuts down a lot of the time of selecting the different points and dragging them around. If the clip is long, I suggest some nice music that puts your brain into a trance, and just forcing yourself to work through it, and save often.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Was the scroll and zoom for the stage different when you rendered the PNGs as when you rendered the TGAs? I noticed a little while ago that my stage was off center before rendering once, and that caused the output to be cut off. I don’t think I’ve repeated it, so I don’t know if that was the issue or not. Try right-clicking on the stage before rendering the PNGs and choose Reset Scroll and Zoom.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Open the project file in pIllusionRender, the standalone rendering program. It’s in the same folder that you installed pIllusion into.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
I find that frameserving from Vegas is the best way. No big file, no recompression. There’s a description of how to do that here.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Do you mean the part where the logo dances, or when it explodes? I think the dancing must be an After Effects animation, but the bursting effect is in the _05_07 library.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Are you saying that you want to move the emitter as the background video is playing? If that’s it, then right-click on the emitter on the stage and choose Record Position.
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There’s no way that I know of to keep the values as set, as far as I know they always just default back to a zoom level of 10. No workaround that I can think of, sorry.
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There’s no way to do this easily in SE, since it doesn’t have Blocker objects. The only way I could think of within pI is to make an emitter that’s simply a black square, and position it over the top and bottom of the screen to act as masks. You may have to duplicate additional particle types to keep the square entirely opaque if Motion Blur is turned on.
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The best way to do that is probably using Get Color from Layer, where the particles pick up their colour from the background image. By turning that on, and selecting Intense, you’ll get brighter copies of pixels from the image you’re using as a background. “Particles Get Color Up” from the July 2006 library should be a good starting point, but there are many others as well (Distorto and Watery in the April 2007 library)
Not sure exactly what you mean about the text. Do you want one word to break apart and form another? The closest thing pI has to paths are Forces, which are good for moving particles around in general, but aren’t a very precise tool.
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You need to use pIRender, see here for slightly more info.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry