Considered one of the most popular solutions for effects creation, particleIllusion is now used worldwide by creative professionals working in film post-production and pre-visualization, standard and HD video, commercial broadcast, motion graphics and game content creation.
particleIllusion's interface has been highly praised as easy to learn, work with, and master.
From feature film to home video, adding effects to existing footage (movies or images) is the most common use of particleIllusion. You can use it with any video editing or compositing software. Load your footage, select effects from the existing libraries of over 1500 emitters, adjust any parameters to customize (if needed), then let your pc or mac perform the computer rendering.
How to Use particleIllusion
3.0
Step 1: Load your
Video or Images (optional)
Most users want to use particleIllusion to add effects to footage (movies or images), and you can simply do this
in a couple of ways. The easiest is to double-click the empty layer thumbnail, then select your movie or image. (Note that
the Windows versions of particleIllusion do not have native DV support at this time, but see the FAQ for
easy solutions).
Step 2: Select the Particle Emitters and Add Them
Select a particle emitter (effect) by clicking on it in
the library window and you'll see the emitter animated inthe preview window. Then just click in the stage window to
add the emitter to your project. If the emitter you want
is not in the library window, there are several ways to load another of the dozens of libraries that are included with
particleIllusion 3.0.
Step 3: Adjust Emitter
Position (optional)
The emitter will be placed where you clicked in the stage,
but you can easily reposition it by dragging it where you
want it. You can keyframe its position to make it move over
time, and you can even "draw" its movement as it plays.
Step 4: Adjust Emitter
Parameters (optional)
There are so many (over 1500) emitters available so you'll
probably be able to find an effect you like, but what if
you want to "tweak" the effect a bit? Changes to the emitter
are simple. Want more particles? Choose the "number" property
in the hierarchy and then adjust its values in the graph
window. Want the particles to move faster? Select "velocity" and
increase its value. There are dozens of simple parameters
(depending on the complexity of the emitter) for you to adjust
this way, and you can make more
"extreme" changes by opening the emitter properties dialog.
Here you can make changes to the particle colors, and even
the image used for the particles.
Step 5: Computer Rendering
As you're perfecting your project, you can see the changes
immediately in the stage window -- there is no waiting for
a re-render. Hit the spacebar to play your project (usually
in near real-time), and saving this output as a movie or
image sequence is just a matter of hitting the "save output" button
and selecting an output format. If you've loaded footage,
you can turn it off and save an alpha channel for the particles
for easy overlay in your video editing or compositing application
(just choose a format that supports alpha channel and check
the "save alpha" option).
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3.0 demo
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