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Hello all..and by all I mean the two usual suspects who always seem to reply to my questions...

A quickie, looking on youtube at ulead examples..i like to do that from time to time..to gather inspiration....btw, im trying to conjur up some intresting novel way of starting my next production ( of my daughter ). So, any ideas more than welcome, ie...black screen fades up to....? just for the intro...

anyway, my quickie question, saw on youtube some examples of a little magic-like dust sprinkling over some images..perhaps then titles appear.

So, using..objects? video studio 10 +...any thoughts? on how i can get an effective fairy dust like effect to sprinkle over parts of video?

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It would be helpful if we could see what you saw. Can you provide a link?

If you have VS 10, then part of the package was the free version of Cool 3D. It has some Particle effects which can do what you want. But be warned -- rendered even a 10 second video containing particle effects can take over 40 minutes in Cool 3D!

I've never considered myself a suspect.. but anyway are you looking for something like the D06 Flash animation included with VS10+? You could place it in one overlay track and an image or two in other overlay tracks.

If not as Blacklab suggests, could you provide us with a link to the example you're referring to?

Look At:
http://www.visisketchpro.com/HLP/HLP_Main.html

this looks great... I've been searching for MAGIC DUST.... or I usually call it fairy dust! I purchased Sparkle Overlays from Action Backs and there are a few good files there.... but this looks much better.
Have you used this yet w VS? If so how does it work? Is it a standalone program or can you integrate into VS.

let me know... I'm very interested in purchasing this.

I was also looking at Particle Illusions through Digital Juice, but it is very expensive!

thanks
Ilene

It sounds like it works like Digital Juice products. It probably has an alpha channel for transparency. You render it to an uncompressed avi, put it in an overlay track and voila.