Greg Flowers
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I think in this case you could accomplish what you want by moving the smoke particle using “Offset” at the top of the list just under “Layer.” I believe this moves the entire layer and should eliminate the “leaning” you don’t want. The smoke should stay completely straight up (or at whatever angle) with no leaning. The layer “Angle” setting may also be of help at some point too.
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I like HuffyUV. Its a lossless AVI format. Its free. You can render to any size and aspect ratios at 1/3 size of uncompressed and it can contain an alpha channel (but not from PI I think). Its available at https://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/huffyuv.html. There are others like photo JPG and the like depending on what your final destination is to be.
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I believe the future will likely be some sort of tapeless storage system. I think it will be longer than just a few years before P2 cards, Memory sticks, Flash cards, etc. will be cheap enough, and hold enough data, to make tape completely obsolete. Current DV tapes cost $5 each and can hold an hour of footage. Solid state storage will have to become very cheap and store much more before it dethrowns tape as the primary cature/storage means for video. IMHO, I do not see this happening within 5 years. I think most companies will not abandon tape based HDV for many, many years. Some will likely add cameras to their lineup that may record to both tape and solid state in HDV. HDV is more analogous to dvd today than laserdisc, which was always just a niche item. Within a few years HD-DVD and Blue-Ray will peck away at dvd’s market, but it will be a while before dvd is completely replaced. Remember, it took dvd 7-8 years for dvd to surpass VHS…
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After effects has a plugin that can do the old 3-D effect. I have never used it so you may want to post the same question on the After Effecs board. I don’t know if there is some sort of long work around you could do in Vegas to achieve this effect.
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Mabey you could try adding a little motion blur in either application and see if that helps smooth things any.
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I cannot speak about Premiere as I use Vegas but I am able to import 1080i Cineform NTSC footage from my FX1 with the standalone Connect HD program. I wouldn’t suggest you use 1440×1080 1.333 pixel aspect ratio (PAR)footage anyway as your end result will be quite stretched out. Particleillusion converts everything to 1.0 PAR. Even if you were able to import native or Cineform HDV footage it would be stretched vertically, making everthing tall and skinny looking. My own personal workaround for this is to render the HDV footage from Vegas as either 1920×1080 or 960×540 res avi with 1.0 PAR. This way Particleillusion will not stretch the footage. I use uncompressed or Huffy codecs unless I need to bring an alpha channel with it, in which case I use a PNG or TIF sequence. I then import the footage as my background and go from there. When I am ready to render, I usually turn off my background, render as a PNG or TIF sequence making sure to check “save alpha.” I composite the PNG or TIF sequence in After Effects or simply Vegas on top of the original HDV footage. It will fit perfectly in a 1920×1080 1.0 PAR comp or 1440×1080 1.333 PAR comp. If I rendered as 960×540 I scale vertically and horizontally by a factor of two. Vegas does all of the scaling automatically. I hope this helps some.