Fire/Explosion Effects Availible for CS4.0?

I'm new to premiere and need a fire/explosion effect/plugin, this is for a school project so quality is not really of relevance.
Buying expensive software is not out of the question, but $100 is the limit. Freeware is preffered.
I am using CS4.0

I know of nothing like that for PrPro, but there are, or at least were, some for AfterEffects. Seems that Alien Skin had a plug-in suite for AE, with at least fire.
Maybe others will know of something that will work for you.
Now, one possible option would be to look for some stock footage (free if possible), and then superimpose fire, or explosion footage, over your regular footage. Similar is often done by Hollywood, when the subject cannot be set aflame, or blown up.
Good luck,
Hunt

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Hello All,
I was hoping for assistance on how to recreate an explosion effect like Flash 8 adn MX used to have. It seems to be missing now. It is not in the presets. I tried to break apart but something is missing. How can I accomplish this? I am trying to explode and IMAGE not TEXT. Particle tutorials seem to explode into hundreds of parts. Im looking for 12 to 16 exploded pieces. I'm not the great at AS2 or 3 but any assistance would be appreciation. Again this is for an image not text so the simple Break apart doesnt seem to be working. Please note I am Using Flash CS5.
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the response but that is not what I need. I need to explode or better yet Break apart a simple image into maybe 12 or 16 pieces and move them off the screen. This used to be done by a Explode effect that was in an older version of Flash. I do not want to download additional software (tweenmax?). but I am ready to try simple AS3 or AS2 code if there is not way to do this. Again this in NOT text and I already tried to break it apart in small symbols but the whole image moves instead of the small piece I broke apart. Please help
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Premiere CS4 effect switch for each video channel

Premiere CS4
Windows
Gentlemen !
Does anyone know if there is a Master Effect Switch for each individual video channel
What I am saying is, is there any way to turn Off or On the effect for each individual video channel
Let's say I wanna turn Off all video effects for video channel 1
Just similar to the icon of the eye or lock for each channel
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With the Nested Sequences, turning thing OFF for performance would be easy, but Nesting does take some additional Resources.
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hi,
does anyone know of any simple ways of adding explosion effects to a game? i've got some spaceships that need to explode (leaving a bit of smoke would also be cool)
my guess is that there are basically two options (?)
1) pre-render a number of explosion sequences (might look naff?)
2) render in real time a small explosion
(2) would be great if there is a v. fast routine
the classical fire demo might be a starting point, or is this too ambitious?
also real-time smoke/fog would be nice
does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing in java?
thanks v. much,
asjf

what kind of game is it ?its a simple vertical shoot-em-up
in most of the games, you can't use such heavy effects
as my fireball. it would be too tricky to clip
everything and it would be a lot of code for a very
small effect. I think some bilinear pre-generated
explosions would be fine, or you can build a 2D
particle system. I got an example of this in my
asteroids game (http://www.mandrixx.net/astro.html).
this particle system could be a lot nicer with some
little filtering, I made this a long time agoi've tried a simple particle test (included below), but was hoping for something a little more fireball like. agree that your fireball code is a bit too ambitious :) but would be interested to see how near to a fireball-like-effect java could get (the code below is more like fireworks..)
good luck with your gamethanks
asjf
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import java.awt.event.*;
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I have a question about the downloads for CS4.

I had to go back to CS4 Master Suite after my card was deactivated, because adobe got hacked and my credit card was compromised. Since I was in the middle of traveling and I'm still in a bad situation, because of it I am still on CS4. Which sucks for my workflow now.
Well, anyway... Sorry, still very frustrated.
When all that happened I had to download CS4 Master Suite from your site, because the disks are not with me. Photoshop continuously shutdown on me. If I attempt to move a layer up or down in the layers panel it froze and shutdown every freaking time. After Effects and Premier Pro could not export or render anything. Illustrator did what it's supposed to do most of the time. Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Premiere Pro are the only programs I use really. They are essential to my freelance work and I have had to turn away projects ever since this whole ordeal started last year.
About a month ago removed CS4 and downloaded Creative Cloud again, because I thought I was in a place were my bank could send me a card. Some how I received another monthly trial and everything was awesome again while I waited for my card. My card didn't come. The trial ended and now I'm right back to not being able to integrate with Cinema 4D and so on. Now that is not your fault. So, I'm not going there.
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Now I know you are far away from CS4, but that is what I am on until I can get back to the US and get another card, because you don't accept paypal or anything else.
Is there anyway I can get an actual proper working install of CS4. I can work around all the features I lost if I can get a download that actually has everything it's supposed to have in it. I do not pirate software, which is why I went backwards. So, please, please, please, please do something about that .dmg that doesn't have everything need to make the program work properly.
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This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
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The "secret" to MPE bliss is to get the video card AND Win7 64bit AND load your CS5.5. I really don't think that the video card would help much running CS4 on 32bit. Regarding which card, I'd say the sweet spot since you want to game and use CS5.5 would be to go with a GTX 480 with two or three fans (single fan reference design is too LOUD). Also, if you are not going to Win7 right away, delay your purchase and the next GEN of NVidia will be closer or out and you may either want one of the new smaller die-size cards or you could benefit form lower prices on what's available today.
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Cooling isn't an issue as long as a water block is available for my next card. I've read the 570 & 580 may be the same reference layout and use the same coolers, I'm still looking into that. I know I can liquid cool the 480, 560TI, 580. I have no idea about the Quadro's, I've never seen a block for those.
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Bill (and others interested),
I have now tweaked my system a bit and done some simple benchmarking to see if I did it right. There is not yet a PPBM+ benchmark available to see how this system fares in comparison to others, but if you make it available for CS4, Bill, I will submit the data.
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Your extension is a CSXS extension. For CSXS extension it's introduced in Extension Manager 2.1. (You can download Extension manager 2.1 from http://www.adobe.com/exchange/em_download/em20_download.html)
In Extension Manager CS2.1 only MXP package is supported. In Extension Manager CS5 CSXS extension must be packaged by ZXP format. So you have to generate two packages for CS4(mxp) and CS5(zxp)
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                    <product name="Flash" version="10" primary="true" />
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                    <product name="Illustrator" version="14" primary="true" />
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          ]]>
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          Extension Name: kuler
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Hi all,
I activated BCS and use update profile 000350 (Separate PB/CB budget lines; standard), we tried to post simple FI posting and the error come up
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Year of cash effectivity mandatory for budget category 9G
Message no. FMBAS202
Diagnosis
The FM update profile does not support the year of cash effectivity for commitment/actual values (posting ledger 9B). However, the year of cash effectivity is mandatory in BCS budgeting for budget category 9G and FM area 0100: the minimum value in this case is 2009.
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3. I dont remember assigning budget category 9B to an FM area. Where is the setting?
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Hi,
When you go to IMG - Public Sector Management - Funds Management Government - Budget Control System (BCS) - BCS Budgeting - Basic Settings - Definition of Budget Data - Choose Budget Category, what's the settings for 'Time horizon' field? It should be blank for 9G(commitment), if you don't work with cash effectivity.
9B is posting ledger, while 9G is budget ledger. You don't have to assign 9A/9B to FM area.
Regards,
Eli

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You can support serial number and activation support.
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