20 hours ago

Could you put this onto a shot and have it sort of come up and around an object? So some how make the background an alpha channel or what not and layer it ontop of a shot instead of having just a black background.

02/03/2012

Use keyLight to key away the red cross =)

01/27/2012

Lol I'm watching this 5 years later

01/25/2012

this tutorial sucks

01/20/2012

Hi Andrew. Im only young and learning to use AE. I really enjoy these tutorials and here in england I saw this on BBC!!

01/12/2012

It's been 5 years later and the ipod commercial effect is still tight! GREAT JOB VIDEO COPILOT!!!

11/23/2011

Trapcode doesn't work... I get the 'Red X', and when i look it up it says i need to give a serial number, even whilst using the demo

12/21/2011

I'm using CS5 and trapcode 2 and when I play the video It's just a point moving around the screen... It doesn't have a "tail" like in your video. What's wrong? :/

11/21/2011

Here's a tip that stumped me for 15 minutes...MAKE SURE YOU CAPITALIZE THE E in Emitter! I had "emitter", and was getting squat in CS5. Also, as others suggest go down to TEXTURE to select your custom layer.

11/15/2011

I was thinking that the way they probably did it was to set a motion tracking point to the ipod nano. Also, I'm wondering if they just shot the dancers in low light used a color change effect. Just a though on how they could do it exactly like the commercial.

11/15/2011

im using trapcode particular 2.1.. and it doesnt allow me to use custom shape.. any alternatives?

10/31/2011

Hey Andrew. Great tuts man! Really helpful.. On this one, just one question:

If I want my particles to move in paths that I make, and not just random wiggles, how can I do so?

Thanks. Much Appreciated.
Peace!
H

10/17/2011

i saw this yesterday and it was funny that you mentioned that 5 years from you may not know what i am talking about.
Its been 4 years and yes i didnt know what you were talking about.

10/13/2011

When I try this the hue/saturation adjustment layer does not change the color of the particle streaks.

Adobe CS5, Trapcode particular 2.0

Any Ideas?

10/16/2011

Daniel-

I don't know how I got it to work, but eventually I did. It took me 15 min to get it working, the last thing I did before it started working was I shuffled Color FX layer down to just above the particle_50 layer, which I had as the dead last layer under the BG layer. I turned off all the layers but those two, turned off and on 'colorize', not much effect. Then I put everything back where it was and turned all the layers back on and it started working. Weird and frustrating. Try shuffling your layers around, mess with the Hue/Sat effect as far as turning off and on colorize, maybe you will stumble across it like I did! GL.

10/11/2011

Hi Andrew, Love your tuts. So helpful and clear..
With this one, I'm having a small problem. My swirly has the same colour throughout, even on the more opaque areas where your swirly approaches white on these ares. "Colorize" in hue/saturation only seems to work when I have shading ticked in Particular, but then something happens where bits of the swirly get blocked or something.. If you or anyone else could point me in the right direction, I'd be so grateful..
Thank you!

10/14/2011

The red X is there because you're using the trial version of particular. To remove the X you have to enter the serial code you get when purchasing particular :)

Hope this information helped you out ;)
Kevin

10/10/2011

hey, have a question. ever time when i click the "Particles" there always a red X blocking the screen, how to i take the red X out?

09/06/2011

Very use full tutorial

08/17/2011

i have trapcode particular 2.0 and when i come to changing the particle type to custom it doesn't have it in the drop down , can you help me please ?

10/11/2011

Hey Vincent, you've probably sorted this out by now, but you select "Sprite" instead of custom :)

08/04/2011

i do not have the custom particle in fact i have more settings than you do so I'm going to delete the particle_50 layer and try it with a preset particle that they gave me and see if it works

07/21/2011

Thank you for anything.

07/12/2011

Okay man, i love your tutorials but the explaination of the mask, when it turns black is Shit. I dont get it, you dont explain how you make it black, someone please reply, i've been stuck on this for 4 friggen hours.

07/16/2011

Yo Morten I ran into this problem myself just make sure that your last pen line connects to the first, just make sure its completed.

06/21/2011

i don't know if this has already been said yet but there is the (custom) particle shape has been changed to (textured polygon) almost messed me up :P.

06/19/2011

does anybody know why he changed the comp frame rate to 90 frames/sec at (18;12),what change did he try to get by changing the frame rate.
Thx

07/06/2011

i think he said because of the rendering problem..

06/19/2011

help me help me echooooo

i really need help guyss
i wana make same thing as lokesh said its really supper urgent how can i move shinny with the path as i want to make star and other icons.

please help me
thanks alot 10000000 time

again help me please

06/18/2011

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06/17/2011

this was very helpful, but I tryed intalling the plugin and it won't let me in use the Partlicar, and it is and shame that I con't make this with the Videos that I used of my friends :( is there an other way of making the Light Streaks?

Please please get back to me and thanks