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TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/16/2006, 5:42 PM
something like particle illusion would be perfect for this. :) Have a copy?

If not, making an animation (maybe a gif) of the burn & using trackmotion would work. Photoshop/Gimp have defaults for making a sparkish trail I belive.
kentwolf wrote on 9/16/2006, 6:35 PM
>>...something like particle illusion would be perfect for this...

I was looking in the same program!

I couldn't find a fuse-looking effect.

I would imagine if you could find a "sparkler" effect, but make it smaller would work.

I saw nothing in P.I.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/16/2006, 10:57 PM
there's a couple sparkles/fireworks/fire that could be modified for the effect he's looking for in PI. I just checked the fire, fireworks & sparkles lib's & there's several good ones. :)
Grazie wrote on 9/16/2006, 11:17 PM
Actually . .. I just played with Fim Effects + Light Rays on some GenMed=SonyNoiseTexture2 ..

#1- Give the GenMed some movement

#2- Apply a Bezier curve and cut out a flame/sparkler type shape

Looks kinda cute!

But yah just can't beat a nice slice of PI!




J_Mac wrote on 9/17/2006, 12:41 PM
http://fxhome.com/

Effects lab has many effects to adapt. Formerly known as AlumDV. John
DJPadre wrote on 9/17/2006, 3:25 PM
PI Se and Full cnan be easily set up to do this (i do this periodically with corporate logos which feature an "underline'" on their texts.

u can always change the emitted to a line emitter, or even jsut record to the point emitter from point a to b.

In addition to the sparks element, adding some smoke also increases the effect
MichaelS wrote on 9/17/2006, 3:31 PM
Look here for some cool, free stuff!

http://www.detonationfilms.com/
bazooka13 wrote on 9/18/2006, 1:00 PM
I would check out Particle Illusion as well. I used the demo and the free downloadable emitter libraries to do a burning fuse accross the bottom of the screen a la Mission Impossible. It came out great. It was real easy to use as well.
TorS wrote on 9/18/2006, 2:40 PM
There's always a bunch of suggestions for "something else". Well, here's one for Vegas - the text generator and the light rays plug-in. When you see this example you'll see that you could easily tweak it into looking like a burning fuse. Learn how to keyframe effects, that's all you need.
Everything in the example (other than the horse and the audio) was done with fonts in the text generator, pan/crop and light rays.
Tor
fw_scott wrote on 9/19/2006, 12:15 PM
Particle Illusion and Effects Lab both seem to have similar features. I'm interested in the "light" or SE versions.

Are there any advantages to one or the other?

Thanks...

By the way, thanks for the link to detonation films. Nice stuff.
Former user wrote on 9/19/2006, 1:28 PM
Get a Sparkler, shoot it with your camera and speed it up.

Dave T2
rustier wrote on 9/19/2006, 1:51 PM
LOL, ah how bout going down to the local hobby store, buying some fuse and making a short film clip? (hey I'm just a newbie - whadda I know?
farss wrote on 9/19/2006, 3:09 PM
A man after my own heart.
Why does everyone seem to ignore the obvious of shooting the real deal?

Bob.
DJPadre wrote on 9/19/2006, 3:16 PM
i think its coz were so strung up with all the techy bits and pieces mate... lol
je@on wrote on 9/19/2006, 3:55 PM
I'm with DaveT2, a sparkler is the way to go. Move it with track motion and you have Mission Imposible.
ken c wrote on 9/19/2006, 4:10 PM
I'd probably use one of digitaljuice.com's new "revealers", which are alpha-channel rendered small fx, many include fireworks/flame that could be used for a MI-style fuse burn, if combined with a stock photo of rope/fuse..

ken