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| | | | |  | Tutorial: Orbing and Beaming Effectsby Elvis Deane 7 years ago particle Illusion Orbing and Beaming Effects In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Elvis Deane demonstrates creating that orbing or beaming effect that so many people ask about. Tutorial, Video+4 | | | | |
| | | |  | Sony Vegas 12 Proby Thomas Roberts 8 months agop2 support WOW guys!!!! http: www.sonycreativesoftware.com vegaspro io Excited about this one BIG TIME!! T | Re: Sony Vegas 12 Pro by Elvis Deane 8 months ago Not that I mind it for legacy projects, but it's about 6 years too late. I'm just about ready to dump my HVX200 and now they integrate it. Overall though the update looks very promising. -- Elvis Dean
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| | | |  | Vegas 11 Pro - Slow Playback on Timelineby Andrew Beard 1 year agoI have Vegas 11 Pro and a Quicktime 1920x1080 .mov file and the playback is PAINFULLY slow. I've got a Intel 2.4 Quad Core Processor and 4GB of ram. I copy the same footage to Vegas 10 Pro, and the pl | | | | |
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| | | |  | Is it worth going from Vegas 10 to 11?by Michael West 2 years agoI just bought a new PC with an i7-2600K which is beautiful. :) I don't use a dedicated video card as it works very well with the motherboard's onboard video and transcoding with the CPU is supposed to | Re: Is it worth going from Vegas 10 to 11? by Elvis Deane 2 years ago I bought it the other day just to stay current and Vegas is my bread and butter, so I don't mind forking over the money. But there really isn't that much new for most users. I'm finding it slower than
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| | | |  | Render crawlby Elvis Deane 2 years agoI've noticed that anytime I render a video in the length of 15 minutes or up, Vegas blasts through the first 1900 frames or so and then slows to an absolute crawl. Anyone have an idea why this is Thos | Re: Render crawl by Elvis Deane 2 years ago That's the thing- it happens on everything from my old Athlon laptop to my i7 920 with 12gbs of ram. It doesn't seem to be a hardware specific issue, but something in the software that's causing a chu
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| | | |  | Trimmer won't playby Elvis Deane 4 years agoI've been having some problems with Vegas ever since updating to 8.0c. The Trimmer won't playback when I press play or hit the spacebar or L key. The play button appears to be pressed down, but the cu | Re: Trimmer won't play by Steve Rhoden 4 years ago Hey Elvis, Since all your computers are Vista 64....Have you tried Vegas 8.1 that is specifically geared towards the 64 bit architecture Some changes has been made on the trimmer...but im not too sur
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| | | |  | PI training DVDsby Dave Navarro 5 years agoAny chance the PI training DVDs might get updated to the latest version of PI and AE  | Re: PI training DVDs by Elvis Deane 5 years ago Most of the changes to pI since my disk was released have been under the hood. I think the only lessons that would change slightly would be the ones on pIRender, since rendering large size clips is ha
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| | | |  | pIllusion on Vista 64by Alan Lorence 5 years agoAnybody running pIllusion 3.0 on Vista 64 If so, what specific version of Vista is it Did you need to do anything special to get pIllusion running Alan. www.wondertouch.com | Re: pIllusion on Vista 64 by Elvis Deane 5 years ago I couldn't get it to start when installing 3.01, might've just been that I needed to . But once I updated to 3.03 it works fine so far. This was on my laptop, will install on my new workstation soon a
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| | | |  | Rendering a good quality...by Dylan Lao 5 years agoI just like to ask how can I render or get an good quality animation result I tried to render my work, then I import it to the Flash using the "High Quality (700kbps) Encoding", then the result of the | Re: Rendering a good quality... by Elvis Deane 5 years ago Your best bets for going out to Flash are to render an AVI using an uncompressed codec like Huffy or Lagarith, or to render out a sequence of PNG files, which you can bring into Flash as a clip.-- Elv
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| | | |  | Help with video playbackby Ty Emery 5 years agoHi there, particle illusion is great and I really wan to start using it on my video projects however there is a small confusing problem. I import the regular speed video into particle illusion but it  | Re: Help with video playback by Elvis Deane 5 years ago One possibility is that it's not playing back at full speed because the clip is just really big and your system can't play it back with all the particles at full speed. Does it play half speed once yo
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| | | |  | Text in PIby Bill Mark 5 years agoDear All, There are some nice logo text emitters in PI but I can't figure out how to customize the text. If anyone can show me the way on this, it will be much appreciated. Thank you, Bill  | Re: Text in PI by Elvis Deane 5 years ago There is a tutorial on that subject available here.-- Elvis Deane! The Apprentice Magician's Guide to particleIllusion Wilbur of Wumbaberry
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| | | |  | Saving Project Filesby Lee Brennan 5 years agoHi, Most video editing pros suggest putting clips, temp files, etc. onto either a second hard drive or a external hard drive. Should I be doing that with Particle Illusion 3 project files as well Or d | Re: Saving Project Files by Elvis Deane 5 years ago I would think that that suggestion has to do with keeping your OS separate from your work files in case for some reason you need to reformat reinstall your OS. It also makes things easier if you're sw
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| | | |  | Sony Vegas Workflow?by Sean SKW 5 years agoI'm considering to buy this sw but it didnt work with avi previously. I work with Sony Vegas Pro. May I know what is a good workflow Should I render to avi from vegas, add the emitters n render out as | Re: Sony Vegas Workflow? by Elvis Deane 5 years ago I don't have a HDV camera so don't know for sure, but whether you're using AVIs and .m2t files togther in Vegas shouldn't have any affect on the final output. I often mix mpegs with quicktimes, AVIs a
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| | | |  | Side Smoke Testby Todd Groves 5 years agoI tried increasing the size of the "Side Smoke Test" (from the "gunfire_01" library) so that I could render it out to fill most of a frame with a resolution of 2048x1556. But, as I increased its overa | Re: Side Smoke Test by Elvis Deane 5 years ago Rather than increasing the Size graph, try adjusting the Zoom graph instead. It should scale up all parts of the emitter together.-- Elvis Deane! The Apprentice Magician's Guide to particleIllusion Wi
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| | | |  | Too Many Audio Tracksby Elvis Deane 5 years agoGot drafted into adding some sound effects into a Final Cut Pro project at a new job, and have run into some pains. Every time I place a clip on the timeline, the two halves of the audio file get spli | | | | |
| | | |  | Tutorial: Relighting an Actorby Elvis Deane 7 years ago particle Illusion Relighting an Actor Have you ever created an effect in which your actor is throwing a fireball Pretty cool effect, right But somethings wrong. It doesnt quite look real. In this vid | | | | |
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