Sorry to ask...How do you use it in Vegas? Hope it is not a stupid question

Welcome on board the totally ridiculous question boat freelancer and help me row

Don’t be scared to ask questions EVER in your life…we live in a world where we are pressured not to think or question

To answer your question:
You can’t use the particle library in Vegas but you can use them in Particleillusion which is a stand alone software app or in Fusion software….. I think

Rory

I still maintain that NASA should have used Particle Illusion to make the space walk more real.

How do you use it in Vegas? Apart from it not being a plugin within Vegas, you use it as a standalone.

Pi allows us to import a Background Video - this could be a Vegas created Video - create synced particles (amazing value!!!) and then "mute" the background and render out from Pi retaining a transparent background and then overlay this back in Vegas.

So,

i)Produce a low res video file from Vegas as a reference

ii) Import this Vegas file as a Background Layer in Pi

iii) Render a file back out from Pi retaining the Alpha "transparent" background

iv) Import this Pi file back into VEgas and drop on an Overlay Track

I've now done this many times; had the same particles sprinkle themselves over a DVDA Menu; used them to "juice-up" a performance stage; synched this to SONY Loops and am now producing for a client a range of "stingers" that are bordering on the unbelievable. You should just SEE the flames and smoke and fireworks! Totally outrageous!!

Once you get over the Vegas<>Pi<>Vegas Tango, and it aint that bad, you will be completely hooked.

Grazie

Grazie when you say synced particles …..let me just put down my oars

eh?

Grazie?

What is your technique for sync particles? To audio

I have never done this at this level but as I read your reply my mind did a flip and I started imaging a few things…
A different approach to some content

I have imported nodes from PS as a path before and attached particles to that and the particle path is exact the effect are great

Rory

What is your technique for sync particles? To audioRory, I am unaware of the ability of syncing to Audio - would be neat though. My reference, which was referring to that which was concerning transparency of video and syncing to a rendered Vegas VIDEO file and hence my further reference to ALPHA channels and transparency, was solely about VIDEO?

However there is now a reference to importing AUDIO files into Pi? Read up about that, Rory, and you may very well find a solution.

Syncing vid and aud IS the holy grail for editors like you and I. Oh yes! It is great to be in-sync. Wouldn't you say, Rory?

Grazie

"What is your technique for sync particles? To audio"

I've had to do this a few times now and though I don't take the scientific approach... it works.

Just play the audio in the back ground while constructing your emitter and that'll will get your sync into the ball park anyway. Then once you've imported it to Vegas, use the velocity envelope to fine tune the sync by slightly speeding it up or down.

Ok the sync has finally sunk in

Good news about the audio in Pi and good idea blink about the audio I have never thought about particles in relation to audio always with visuals
But after Grazie’s comment I had an epiphanic to a higher level of editing

But after Grazie’s comment I had an epiphanic to a higher level of editing . yeah . .right . . .

But what particular particle shone on your "Road to Damascus"?

Actually your use of the adjective "epiphanic" is incorrect. I would humbly suggest that it is the noun you are stretching for "epiphany" OR one could describe your "levitation" to a higher level could have been epiphanic OR epiphanal OR "epiphanical". Interesting . . .

In this context I have never heard of the use of the noun as an adjective. Most likely the better fit could be a derivative of an adjectival-noun?

Grazie