Particle Only Likes Uncomped AVI!

Grazie wrote on 9/12/2003, 10:01 AM

Okay dokey! It might have been said before, but I might as well restate it again: PArticle Illusion needs to have at least uncompressed AVI to work. It may very well do other flavours of AVI but those I've captured into my projects set at PAL-DV don't get a look in in PI - okay? - I've had to reintroduce previously V4 PAL-DV captured clips onto the T/L and THEN New Track render in uncompressed AVI . . just wasted 4 hours pulling my hair out - arrrgghhh! But I got it going. Got particles flying all over the place! Liverpool hasn't seen this many fireworks since the Queen's Jubille, I bet - AND IN DAYLIGHT too!

Phew . . . .

Grazie

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DGrob wrote on 9/12/2003, 10:11 AM

Hi Grazie! I'm not sure about PAL renders, but under render as, try:

"Uncheck 'Create an open DML (.avi version 2.0) compatible file' in the custom>video page of the .avi render dialog"

This has worked for me in generating brief renders of clips I wish to animate via PI or C3D, or others (as I understand from some previous posts). You can do a search for Create Open DML and see some interesting posts.

DGrob

TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/12/2003, 10:39 AM

Grazie, I frameserve to PI, then when I'm done using the background I get rid of it and render to alpha channel TGA sequence. You might wanna try that too.

dmcmeans wrote on 9/12/2003, 11:13 AM

HappyFriar,

How does one frameserve to PI?

Are you saying you have your video playing in the background of PI while your editing your particles?

Thanks,

David

TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/12/2003, 12:08 PM

I use Satish's frameserver plugin (www.degubmode.com). It's slower then if I render out to AVI, but then I don't need to take the time to render.