“Particle Illusion” Video Effects – coming your way Jan. 6th

I will demonstrate some of the features of “Particle Illusion”. They actually have a number of products, including two that I will focus on: Particle Illusion 3 (PI3), and the Pro Emitters. The first is their flagship product for the creation of 2D particle type effects using any video (or still image) as the background. The latter is a set of sophisticated presets for PI3 that were created by long time users who specialize in certain types of effects (abstract, logos, explosions, water, etc.)

They also have an entry level program called “Particle Illusion SE” which lists for $100 vs. about $400 for PI3. The SE version is very full featured in my opinion and well worth the price. In addition, there is a downloadable demo of the SE version, full featured for 30
days. You can get this and see a lot of sample movies here:

http://www.wondertouch.com/default.asp

Steve Kennedy
Coordinator, HAL-PC Multimedia & MIDI SIG

Slideshow, Animation, & VideoFest2006 was a lot of fun!

We had a good turnout to this event and received about 10 entries from folks out there. Surprisingly, we had more video entries than any other category which shows that folks are doing this stuff at home. Hopefully, we’ll have this event again in 2007. 

Come on out to our monthly Camcorder & Video SIG meetings held at 9:30 am on the first Saturday of the month. We talk about all kinds of stuff but mostly that which the beginner would be interest in knowing and using. Bring a friend and learn how to make your own video with your camcorder.