NEW: Particleillusion for Sony Vegas -- Alan PLZ Comment :)

Alan,

I just saw the announcement by one of the members at the official Sony Vegas Pro board and got jazzed--but I can't afford it, at least not for now. But here are a couple of questions:

1. Would this change some of the limitations in PI such as 32-bit and 64-bit--I noticed that the trials have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. I use Vegas 10e 64-bit most of the time (32-bit only if I need to use Magic Bullet HD Looks plugin really). In other words, does this plugin act and operate according to the host Vegas app or is it its own "engine" so to speak irregardless of the version installed?

2. Please share anything else on differences, etc. if any between the stand-alone and this plugin for Vegas.

3. And to follow up with a rather obvious question that landed at the Sony forum where this was announced, will there be a discount for those who already own the full PI 3x?

Thanks.

~ Philip Knight
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=== Official GenArts Page for the Vegas PI Plugin ===
http://www.genarts.com/software/particleillusion/sony-vegas

I have been traveling a lot lately, so apologize for not posting about this. We released particleIllusion for Vegas (and Nuke) last week and posting to this forum was on my list of things to do, but then I got on a plane again.

1) It's 64-bit (available as 32-bit too)

2) The plug-in doesn't let you create emitters, and you essentially don't have the emitter properties dialog. So whatever you have access to in the em props dialog you can't do in the plug-in. The plug-in has an integrated search function though.

3) I don't know about the discount. I'll check into it.

Download the trial version and check it out from genarts.com. It's fully-functional for 2 weeks and watermarks after that.

Alan.

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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com

Alan,

Since you indicated there is a 32bit version of the installer, does that mean I can still use my Vegas Pro 9.0e program under Windows XP with this new VFX plugin? The website indicated Vegas 11 which according to the notes I looked at, is only compatible with Windows 7 which I do not own.

This is great news!

Thanks,

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FixitMAD

I believe that vegas 9 did not support OFX and from the screenshots it looks like PI is done via OFX - so in that case it will not work. I recall the VP10 was the first version to support OFX.

P.S. to Alan:

1. I hope you don't mind that I have copied over your two responses in this thread to the Sony thread about this new Vegas PI plugin. It seems appropriate since it is the official Vegas forum. I'm just trying to keep fellow Veggies up-to-date.

2. Perhaps I jumped to a pessimistic conclusion in my previous post whereby I deleted my download of the plugin since you said that only v.11 of Vegas is supported -- I had spaced out that you mentioned that it worked "for the most part"* in v.10. I'll re-download and try it out on v.`0e and see what happens.

* Not sure what "for the most part" means so those of us with v.10 will find out. That said it would be nice if could clarify that statement so that we could be ready for whatever error messages or glitches would or could arise.

I.e. a "known issues" list of some sort.

At least the ones that you know of for I understand that rolling out a new product is an unfolding process and that developers do as best as they can. Especially with a program as complex under-the-hood as PI.

Thanks.