Boris FX have released a free version of their Particle Illusion software, which can export movies in many ProRes video formats - including with alpha channel.
2,500 emitters to choose from if you download the free addon pack (Select Particle Illusion as host when downloading and restart Particle Illusion afterwards).
EDIT: Hugely powerful timeline control.
Different Emitters can be added along a timeline, and all parameters can be dynamically controlled too.
Re: Free particles movie maker
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 12:57 pm
by Terry Payman
Not a recommended workflow, but as a quick experiment...
In Boris FX Particle Illusion
- I chose an emitter and adjusted some parameters
- Rendered a ProRes movie
In Adobe Media Encoder
- Added the ProRes movie as a source
- Rendered the movie to individual JPEGs in a folder
In Magic
- Added a JpegFolder module and selected the folder rendered by Media Encoder
- Added an audio file as source.
- Linked it to JpegFolder's Index
- Adjusted Scale, Peak and Average modifiers to give a result I liked
- Exported a video file.
The audio track starts slowly, try jumping 16s into the video
Re: Free particles movie maker
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 6:43 pm
by Terry Payman
Another test
Re: Free particles movie maker
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 2:27 pm
by Sadler
Thanks for the heads up. I had downloaded this a while back but never took the time to get into it. It seems there's a new version in the works that will bring 3d FX (currently all FX are 2d) and improvements to turbulence and secondary particles - assuming they'll make it into the stand-alone version.
I also like what you've managed to get out of it.
Re: Free particles movie maker
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 10:19 pm
by Terry Payman
Thanks Sadler!
A 3D version would be very interesting, but there are so many parameters with just the 2D that I'm already overwhelmed with the possibilities - so quite happy to wait!
Re: Free particles movie maker
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 8:11 pm
by Terry Payman
Sadler wrote:...there's a new version in the works that will bring 3d FX... and improvements to turbulence and secondary particles - assuming they'll make it into the stand-alone version...
I've just watched the sneak peak. The presenter states that the new features will indeed make it into the 2021 stand-alone, and confirms that with a colleague https://youtu.be/QtPhu87nyBU?t=3020
