[Steve Dunnington]

Whenever I’ve needed that effect I use ‘Turbulent Displace’. You can easily apply it to text or images and then animate the evolution. You just need to make sure the ‘size’ and ‘amount’ parameters aren’t set too high.

If your main comp is 25/30fps etc… you can also use the ‘Posterize Time’ effect to reduce the frame rate to something like 5 fps (this will give you the jumpy effect your looking for)

You might come across issues of the evolution getting to its max value so you can easily key-frame the evolution from 0x – 10x and then add the loopOut(‘pingPong’,0) expression to make it loop backwards and forwards between the key-frames.

I hope this helps. 🙂

loopOut('pingPong',0)

[Steve Dunnington]

cheers,

I’m sure when they realize there are issues with the 2009 mac pro supporting pluggins they will have to sort out some sort of update. At the end of the day its unlikely that being so new they would even have one of the new Mac Pros within Cycore Effects for testing. Ill email them as well so they realize its a common problem. There doesnt seem to be anyone else talking about this yet so its possible were within the first few to find it. I feel congratulations are in order…

Steve

[Steve Dunnington]

Hi,

I’m having the same problem and its on one of brand new mac pro’s as well. Every time I apply the CC Particle World to a solid CS3 and CS4 crashes. I’ve also tried it with a wide range of different settings however still no luck.

ALSO…

Im having a problem with AE CS3 not allowing me to check the OpenGL acceleration in the previews preferences, every time I check the box a message window saying the follow appears.

“OpenGL acceleration is not currently supported on this version of Mac OS. Please go to adobe.com/……. etc…”

I made sure I had all the updates and still no luck which made me think perhaps its due to the new mac pros not being designed to work with CS3. I installed the 30 day trial of AE CS4 and this time open GL did work. This still however doesn’t explain my problem with using the CC Particle Effect though…

Any ideas of why both these problems might be happening??

Cheers,
Steve