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Hans, just buy Edward Troxel’s plug-in called Excalibur. It’s fantastic and will save you hours of work. Not to mention the time it would take to create your own script. Just saying………
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Jojo, it’s really quite simple. Make sure your snap is on, then when dragging clips close to another, a line should light up, signaling you’ve joined a clip to a clip, no matter how far you are zoomed out. The only way you are not witnessing this, is that your snap is off. Hope that helps?
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Dude, this is a password protected video, how are we supposed to view it, to help you with your current dilemma?
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Lorence, as the Developer I most certainly respect your opinion, but I have to respectfully disagree. What you have here, is nothing short of complete brilliance. It could honestly become “THE INDUSTRY STANDARD”. But to do so, YOU would have to present it as a Professional package, and that includes HD support and including only Professional looking effects. Of course it’s only my opinion, and what does that matter in the grand scheme of things, but I truly believe it could be a show stopper!! The app. that everyone reaches for, for Professional Special Effects!! I mean from a financial perspective the sky would be the limit, with only a tiny bit of tweaking. A goal most worthy of pursuing……..no?
Anyways, at the end of the day, it’s none of my business really. But honestly if I had deep pockets I would invest every penny in this Program, and make it all it can be. All it should be!! Forgive my rantings, it’s meant only with the best of intentions, my friend. -
Excellent!! This answers all my questions, thanks John. Now I understand how to make Huffy and Lagarith visible in Vegas. I will look into purchasing NeoScene, thanks! You’re right about passing judgment, it’s not really the format that irks me, it’s the player. Quite trivial and actually irrelevant. Good to know that’s it’s not my box that is causing the slow motion in PI, but the coding itself. They really should look into optimizing it for HD playback, then they would have a super application on their hands. Anyways again, thanks for the help. If you’re curious as to the finished product after your advice, here’s the link to the video.
https://www.robjames.net/LittleSis.wmv (The special effects don’t occur until the final few seconds.) Though being on a Mac it probably won’t even play for you. -
Thank you so much for your answer John, it’s good to find someone who is doing this. My apologies for my late response, but other obligations have kept me from completing this project. Now I have a bit of time to resolve this.
So I’ve taken your advice and installed Lagarith, but again I can’t see it in Vegas 10 as an output option, where should I be looking? (Same thing happened with Huffy.) I am using the 32-bit version of Vegas by the way. I desperately want to try your work flow, but again I can’t see Cineform. I must be missing something very obvious? I do what you do, as far as exporting the effect minus the background, that feature works excellently! But I’ve been exporting the .png sequence. I will try QuickTime Animation 32bit now, though. Out of curiosity why use QuickTime, are you on a Mac? I only ask because I don’t like the QuickTime format, but I can use it, if it improves my work flow. A quick question here, do your HD movies not play in slow motion, inside of Particle Illusions? Because if that’s so, this is definitely the method for me. I’m off to try your work flow, wish me luck. -
Just a quick update, the hiding background and saving Alpla Channel idea worked really well!! No more problems with a black frame at the beginning and horizontal black lines at the end. So the final result looks quite good, other than the fact that the explosions aren’t moving correctly with the footage’s object. It has to be due to the fact that my footage or .png sequences play in slow motion in PI. I mean, if I check it frame by frame in PI, it looks perfect. But the exported video doesn’t have the same accuracy. I think once I find the correct format to load into PI, things will be fantastic! It’s still a matter of trial and error at this point. But if I do find that magic format, I’ll be dancing on the clouds. Thanks for your help, thus far Alan!
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Okay, thank you Alan for your reply. I’m going to test out all the options you mentioned. I have already tried exporting .png sequences out of my NLE, which I had high hopes for. But even that plays in slow motion in PI. I guess I’ll have to keep trying output formats until I find one that plays smoothly in PI. A quick question on that. If I export something other than my original footage’s size (so that it plays smooth in PI) Will that affect the placement of the emitters once I export the finished file?
On another note, I really like your idea of hiding the background image and exporting it with Alpha Channel. Got to try that one out. I’ll report back, once I’ve had another go around. Oh, one final question, is there a way to replace an emitter with another, after all it’s moments have been mapped? I ask because, due to having my “Show Particles” off, I inadvertently used the wrong emitter. It was a lot of work to place things and I’m hoping I can just swap out the emitter with another. No mention of switching emitters in the manual. -
Hi Alan, sorry for my excited tone. I really thought there was no one on this forum anymore. Glad to find out I’m wrong. Anyways, do you have any personal experience placing PI Special FX’s on HD Footage?? If so I’d really like to know what render settings you used out of your NLE? Specifics, such as bit-rate, resolution etc. I’m going to try your suggestion of .png frames, though that’s another thing to try and learn. Is it covered in the manual, or is there a link to a tutorial? I mean, if that works it would be very cool! So to understand you correctly, you’re saying .png frame animation will play smoothly in PI, and not in slow motion? All the while retaining their HD resolution? If so, that may well be the solution I’m looking for. Gonna run some tests and get back to you. Thanks!!