Philip Knight
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You’re most welcome.
Truth is this “serious hobby” of mine using Sony Vegas Pro and PI as well as Cubase for my music is kind of like my second childhood.
I remember when the first (and only?) full length Disney “Peter Pan” came out in the mid 60s or so. I was blown away by all the stardust effects (Tinkerbell doing her thing) as well as the signature Disney castle-and-fireworks stuff.
In design school, my love for light and glows got me into airbrush. Then a long and winding road later beginning in 2003 or so, I bought a $5 webcam and did my first video. Then went to Pinnacle Studio 8 and an SD camcorder off of eBay, then Vegas and then a Canon HV30 HD camcorder.
My signature style is in one sense rather Disney-eeque even though the subject matter is philosophical, spiritual/non-religious. It’s a lot of work but fulfilling. Gets me into the Zone 🙂
If you wish to see some of my vid ditties, all pretty short, copy the following into Google — youtube compasssionsensuality — and then choose the “CompassionSensuality’s Channel – YouTube” link/hit.
(My apologies for this, but this board doesn’t allow live links, so this is an alternative go-to.)
— The “Yoni Metta” and “Middle East Truth” ones have the most PI use in them. The latter was my very first attempt at using PI so a bit rougher around the edges, but hey, it got an Honorable Mention at Rederosity.com in 2006. Not bad for a old fart newbie – lol.
I’m slogging through a more complex complement to the “Yoni Metta” one. My next-generation in terms of polish.
All the best and keep up the fun!
~ Philip Knight
========== Owner/operator of CompassionSensuality.Net – (https://www.compassionsensuality.net/) ==========
“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.” ~ The Dalai Lama -
Ditto here in terms not only for my gratitude for PI and in fact, personally to Alan, and I agree that new emitters are really great and unique in this field and hence getting too greedy isn’t either gracious or very mature – lol.
That said, one thing that frustrates me a bit is considering that most people with PCs – perhaps even Mac — who do any kind of beyond-basics video have gravitated towards a 64-bit OS. For obvious reasons — I now have 16 Gb of DDR3 I can use vs. the more or less 3.7 Gb. of 32-bit. And so when software does provide a 64-bit version (i.e. Vegas Pro), it helps — not just with RAM.
As mentioned earlier to Alan, perhaps the mechanics of PI going 64-bit is so daunting that it may be close to impossible. I simply don’t know, but considering GenArts is an industry player in the film industry, one would think they could help Alan with resources or whatever would be necessary to do this with PI.
As a user, I know that my workflow would greatly benefit from having that extra RAM power available. Especially in terms of PI being able to handle video backgrounds. FPS can grind to 2-5 or so frames per second. No-go.
So I work around that by using .jpg frame stills — but it’s just not the same thing. More or less a kind of guesstimate and then I have to tweak stuff in Vegas more than I like to. That said, yes, I tend to do somewhat more complex/subtle light effects than perhaps most — but not unreasonably so.
So it would be nice to know where we are in terms of 64-bit development, if anywhere.
Thanks.
~ Philip
P.S.: At my site’s homepage one can see one of my older videos (2009 or 2010 or so). There is no way I could have used any video background on this in PI. Not even now with my new 6-core AMD system. Scroll down just past the text intro, it’s titled “Yoni Metta”. As stated at beginning of video, viewer discretion is advised.
========== Owner/operator of CompassionSensuality.Net – (https://www.compassionsensuality.net/) ==========
“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.” ~ The Dalai Lama -
Paul,
Phunny schtuff 🙂 And being a 57 year old guy who’s essentially retired due to a form of disability, it’s GREAT to see someone over 25 really enjoying making videos and using PI like a kid would. Childlike glee and glow keeps one young whatever the age our biosuit is supposed to be as stated on our driver’s licenses.
This one is tighter and more polished than your first one though that one wuz phunny in its own way.
In short, your fun with this stuff is an enjoy-life inspiration.
Way to go, brother!~ Philip
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It seems that your first language is not English and it is hard to understand what you are trying to say. Your name is Sergio — do you speak Italian? Se si, scrivi in Italiano, e possibile che posso aiutarti 🙂
In the mean time, why do you need a .gif file – website? I don’t think one can save a Particleillusion file in .gif — you’ll have to do that in a program like Photoshop or the free Gimp2 image editor. But this could be a lot of work depending on how long the animation is because you’d have to first save the effect in PI as a PNG sequence with black removed/alpha channel.
Then… you’d have to convert each .PNG into a .GIF and make sure you have them numbered exactly as created – 1.png to 1.gif, 2.png to 2.png, etc.
You are better of creating a Flash file if you have the software to do that — first an NLE (video editor) to create the full animation and then some Flash compiler/encoder (the only decent free one I know is RIVA).
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Well, I have VP10e and it also has that phantom/missing keyframes problem. As I stated at my recent Dec. 29 thread at the Sony Vegas Pro Forum, keyframes are NOT an option in editing — even moderate editing depends on them. I’ve never had this problem before in v.6 or v.8. It’s due to the sloppy coding in the new FX GUI somehow. Maybe I’ll also submit a bug report though since I have v.10, I may be out of luck since we’re up to v.11 now.
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Kewl :o)
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P.S.: Maybe at some point there can be a complementary “sequel” to this — similar motion and feel of flowers that one can essential tuck in with the leafy ones. There is a start or hint in this direction in a couple of these emitters, but I’m visualizing a more blooming, center-out feel just like the green/leaves, etc.
Flowers with 5 or more symmetrical petals like morning glories, impatiens, pansies and such and/or other colorful varieties that span the full color spectrum.
Combined together, such green + flowers virtual bouquets could make great Valentine’s Day and similar e-card stuff (says the guy who is more or less a monk :o)
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Alan,
I’m not sure how I’ll use these plant-themed emitters due to my particular more “ethereal” visual style, but I’ll come up with something to tweak and weave them in for they are… great: graceful, elegant, cool – IMO.
As commented before, them thar emitters just keep getting better and better.
What a treat to get a new PI X-mas present every month:
Particleillusion: The Gift That Keeps On Giving :o)~ Philip Knight
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Thanks, David.
This post was actually kind of the tail end of a slightly compulsive attempt to educate myself on and possibly implement RAID0 or RAID1 that began at the Sony Vegas forum.
Your conclusions seem to jive with the overall sense I get:
Unless one can afford dedicated hardware for the other RAID 2-5 – which if one is serious, ain’t cheap – it’s really not worth it for me to do 0 or 1. It could turn into more headaches just for the sake of trimming off a few seconds or minutes of boot, application read/write and render times.
Besides, for the latter there is always the leave-it-running-and-render-overnight option :o)
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I too concur. Really great stuff, Alan and Co. :o)
Just keeps getting better and better.I’ve always wanted–but could not afford stock fly-through and other cloud footage. Now with a little bit of ingenuity and time-and if necessary some NLE enhancements, we PI-ers can fool all viewers of our works with this photo-realistic palette of cloud fx that our scenes are actual cloud footage based ones – lol. Very kewl.