Fairy Dust effect in Vegas

Dexterbot@gmail.com wrote on 6/5/2005, 6:40 PM
Anyone know how to create a 'fairy dust' effect or 'shooting star' effect in Vegas? I've seen it done in AE using Delirium Plug-in but I am a Vegas user so just curious whether this can be done.

I'm not a novice by any means when it comes to Vegas and compositing and I've done a lot of complex multi layer composites. But I've been scratching my head over how to accomplish this.

One thought was to use PS or Illustrator to create a small bright star like image and use some motion blur but it's not quite the same. The 'fairy dust' effect that I've seen in AE is very nice and it contains many independent 'objects' trailing dusts that moves on its own.

Any suggestions??

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Chienworks wrote on 6/5/2005, 6:50 PM
I wouldn't even try to do this in Vegas. Particle Illusion does this very nicely. For a while, the SE version was available for free. Check out http://www.wondertouch.com/
Dexterbot@gmail.com wrote on 6/5/2005, 7:43 PM
Yes... this seems to be what I need. I'll take a look at it. There is still a demo for the SE version so I'll download it and give it a try.

Thanks!