Michael Lansdell
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This project was meant to be a fool around and see what happens kind of thing, but I’m just getting frustrated now. Whilst those expressions are on I can’t seem to get anything visual produced by Particle World. It’s all very upsetting!
I’ve included a couple of screen shots here, one is without the expressions to illustrate what I want the particles to look like across the path:
And this is with the expressions on, and the birth rate RIGHT up:
I’m still fiddling with all this, but if you (or anyone!) have a brainwave I’d be keen to hear it :o)
Many thanks, again!
Michael Lansdell
Online/Offline Editor
My system:
2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
5GB DDR2 RAM
512MB ATI Radeon X1900 XT
OS X 10.4.11
Final Cut Pro 6.0.4
After Effects CS4
Blackmagic Design DeckLink HD Extreme (6.6.2)Take a gander at my personal blog:
http://www.monstersareart.co.uk
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I tried this:
But then all trace of the particles disappear!
Is that what you meant? I got those expressions by alt clicking on the particle producer positions and then pick-whipping to the corresponding position of the light I want to follow the path of. I should probably point out I’ve tried this without the wiggle expression on the light too, as I wondered if that was the problem, but it didn’t make a difference.Thank you!
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Hi, thanks for this. That helped greatly, but in the end I found it easiest to use the make keyframe shortcut as I was listening through each one. Hopefully I won’t have to do that again!
Michael Lansdell
Online/Offline Editor
My system:
2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
5GB DDR2 RAM
512MB ATI Radeon X1900 XT
OS X 10.4.11
Final Cut Pro 6.0.4
After Effects CS4
Blackmagic Design DeckLink HD Extreme (6.6.2)Take a gander at my personal blog:
http://www.monstersareart.co.uk
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Cool, that’s helped me get a bit closer. The only thing It’s lacking now is locking the character spacing so I get that overlap (at the minute it expands outwards). Thank you very much!
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Yup, I want to view the timelines TC, I hoped there’d be a neater way, but thanks!
Michael Lansdell
Online/Offline Editor
My system:
2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
5GB DDR2 RAM
512MB ATI Radeon X1900 XT
OS X 10.4.11
Final Cut Pro 6.0.4
After Effects CS4
Blackmagic Design DeckLink HD Extreme (6.6.2)Take a gander at my personal blog:
http://www.monstersareart.blogspot.com
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Huh, Intel only apparently. There go my upgrade dreams…
:o(
Michael Lansdell
Online/Offline Editor
My system:
2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
5GB DDR2 RAM
512MB ATI Radeon X1900 XT
OS X 10.4.11
Final Cut Pro 6.0.4
After Effects CS4
Blackmagic Design DeckLink HD Extreme (6.6.2)Take a gander at my personal blog:
http://www.monstersareart.blogspot.com
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If it was up to me we’d always run the very latest version of software, whether its FCP or OSX :o)
I just wanted to know if this issue is fixed so I can present a reason that is easy to grasp to those with the money. It will cost £1200+ to get all the systems up to date, which in TV terms isn’t vast sums, but would be considered unnecessary if it didn’t fix an issue we have with our work flow. As we are a fully contained production company (from pre-production through to delivery) we very rarely have issues with codecs and the like, so in many ways there isn’t that urgency for us to update if our current system is fine for the job at hand.
But as I said, I’d like to get us more up to date, I just need to present a case as it isn’t up to me – I’m just an employee! Shane Ross’ answer is encouraging, so I’ll try and get the go ahead on a couple of licenses to start off with as a test, before upgrading the lot.
Many thanks to you all!
Michael Lansdell
Online/Offline Editor
My system:
2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
5GB DDR2 RAM
512MB ATI Radeon X1900 XT
OS X 10.4.11
Final Cut Pro 6.0.4
After Effects CS4
Blackmagic Design DeckLink HD Extreme (6.6.2)Take a gander at my personal blog:
http://www.monstersareart.blogspot.com
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Thanks for the feedback everyone.
Charlie – How I use the Media Manager depends upon the project. For shorter form programmes filmed entirely on DV-CAM I use Media Manager to create consolidated projects for the Online, by using the copy function. These projects rarely contain footage with speed changes applied and so I very rarely have a problem (although once with some sped up footage of some french kids going mad in a supermarket with a trolley it all came through at under 1% instead of 300% or so, a surprisingly nice effect but not what I wanted at all!). However, when we make longer archive programmes, I have footage coming in on DV-CAM, DVCPRO, DigiBeta, Beta SP, etc… In this case I prefer to capture the footage specifically for the onlie as some of those formats allow better colour depth than the footage used in the offline contains. In this case I use the Media Manager to create an “Offline” version of the project, and this is where I tend to have problems.
Mark – I wish it were up to me, but if I want to upgrade I need to present a reason too. For instance, we have six edit suites here, five offline and one online. All the offline suites are still running FCP Studio 1 because there hasn’t been a reason to upgrade them, but I’m running Studio 2 on the Online because we occasionally do Colour-grades/play-outs/etc for other people, and receiving a project we couldn’t open prompted it. So, I really need to know if it’s been fixed because we’ll need to buy six copies of it (Media Managing happens on the offline suites and I’ll have to be able to open it in the online) and I’d have to present what seems like a tangible reason to the powers that be.
Alan – I have no idea, sorry!
Does any of that make sense?
Cheers for your thoughts so far!
Michael Lansdell
Online Editor,
Available Light Productions LtdMy system:
2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
5GB DDR2 RAM
512MB ATI Radeon X1900 XT
OS X 10.4.11
Final Cut Pro 6.0.4
After Effects CS4
Blackmagic Design DeckLink HD Extreme (6.6.2)Take a gander at my personal blog:
http://www.monstersareart.blogspot.com
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Just because I don’t want to have to buy anything!
I’m not interested in putting 3D stuff from anything like Maya in, just flat illustrative stuff so it looks like it’s stood on the desk, etc. This isn’t for work, it’s purely for my own amusement, so if I can avoid spending money then all the better. That said, I read about a piece of software called Icarus that’s free but not available for commercial use at all, and if I’m going to learn how to use something then it would be nice to have the option to use it down the line for commercial stuff.
PFHoe looks interesting though, and it’s pretty cheap, thank you! Ideally I’d like something that works within After Effects, but maybe that doesn’t exist…Michael Lansdell
Online Editor,
Available Light Productions LtdMy system:
2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
5GB DDR2 RAM
512MB ATI Radeon X1900 XT
OS X 10.4.11
Final Cut Pro 6.0.4
After Effects CS4
Blackmagic Design DeckLink HD Extreme (6.6.2)Take a gander at my personal blog:
http://www.monstersareart.blogspot.com
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Ha, thank you! I bet you had fun making those…
Michael Lansdell
Online Editor,
Available Light Productions LtdMy system:
2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
5GB DDR2 RAM
512MB ATI Radeon X1900 XT
OS X 10.4.11
Final Cut Pro 6.0.4
Blackmagic Design DeckLink HD Extreme (6.6.2)