Fuzzy "snow" effect

I'm looing to add a short, apporoximately 1-2 second, clip to the beginning of my project. I am looking for the effect of a television with no input, the black and white fuzzy "snow" and the sound to accompany it. Does anyone know how I could achieve this? Thanks

See if the Effects>Video Generators>Render>Noise or Particle Noise will do the job.
Al

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Hello, I'm sort of a new member here at Apple Discussions, and I have a question about LiveType.
Is there any way to make like a snow effect in LiveType? Because we're making a holiday special broadcast for our school, and I want to make like a falling snow effect (like real snow, not snow text.)
If anyone knows, please post, thank you in advance. :]

Hi(Bonjour)!
Export your livetype movie, import it in a new iMovie project and use the free "snow" filter from cf/x company:
http://www.imovieplugins.com/fxhome.html
Michel Boissonneault
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physical model of the winter falling snow. We used mathematical
algorithms to program the model of real snowfall, cute snwoflakes,
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http://www.usflashmap.com/component/falling_snow_flash.htm

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http://www.usflashmap.com/component/falling_snow_flash.htm

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I wonder if someone can help me?
I'm trying to create a falling snow effect on a short movie I am creating. I have found a couple of websites that have an option to download this effect, but everytime I do it, it downloads this:
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...I've not copied the whole thing because it is SO long!
This is one of the websites I've tried downloading from: http://www.imovieplugins.com/fxhome.html
I've searched the internet trying to find another download, or at least some help, but can't seem to find much that is of any use.
Really hope someone can help!

It's definitely advised to have a backup, but that is not normally a reason why a download does not work.
So, can you try to post the exact message you got please. And, please post the exact steps you took to get where this happened.
Please do not use all caps - it is very difficult to read and considered shouting on the internet.

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Hi, I'm making a holiday video greeting and want to make it appear to snow. Can anyone help me?
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John

David Harbsmeier wrote:
.. Virtix makes a plugin package that includes a snow filter.
isn't Virtix out-of-business for >3y .. ?
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• download Lotsasnow http://www.alittlebitofnothingleft.net/snowfall/Snowfall1.0.dmg
• open installer, it's a Snowfall.qtz file
• open that - again - with Quartz Composer, to get rid of that red-dish background..
• import the new qtz into iM
• .. which converts qtz into 'video', you can, e.g. export as appleintermediate.mov for usage in FCE and 'overlaying' over any other video ..
you need that .mov ... ?

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Open up an old project that uses the effect then copy&paste it to your new setups.
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Looking for video effects

Hello everyone:
I'm relatively new to Adobe Premiere CS4 (although I have some experience working with digital video). I seemed to have mustered the controls for Premiere itself but what seems to be lacking in my understanding is how to create certain visual effects with it. I'm looking to create a video clip with effects like in this particular video: (Sorry for the link but it's much more easy to show it.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePDR3Pza1_g
What I'm looking for is this:
1. The way they have the Id logo expand, shrink and distort in the very beginning.
2. The "broken TV reception", or "TV-snow" effect. Also the effect how they have the picture twitch at some points.
3. The way they implemented titles in the beginning -- "The Union Aerospace Corporation is the largest ..."
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I'm not sure if it's Premiere or After Effects, either. So I apologize if I posted it in a wrong forum.
Thank you in advance.

As for the picture jitter, I'm not sure I saw the appropriate effect for it, but I'll keep looking, maybe I missed something... You said there's an effect for that in AE. I don't really know it that well, so I'm curious, is it possible to take a track from PrPro, send it to AE and then back to PrPro (pretty much like with sound track and Soundbooth)?
Depending on the version of PrPro and whether it's one of the full "suites," you can use Adobe Dynamic Link (DL) to quickly move footage into an AE Comp and back again. Each version of what was once called Production Stuido has improved the function of DL.
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Speaking of which, I know it's off topic here, but do you know any idea where can I get some sound effects like in that clip? Maybe even some sound bites/background music/anything.
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http://www.findsounds.com/ISAPI/search.dll
http://www.freesound.org/index.php
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Also the voices in the beginning sound quite machine-like, is there a software I can use to dictate some text in?
Audition, SoundBooth, and several other audio editing programs have similar Effects, and many more can be added, such as Reverb and Delay. There are also some free VST plug-ins that do a similar distortion. This GOOGLE Search has yielded a bunch of sites for VST's. Some free and some for a fee.
Again, thanks for your input, you can't imagine how much time you've just saved me... As for the video I'm making, it's supposed to be a fun one. When I'm done with it (hopefully in a couple of weeks) I'll post a link here.
No problem. If I can track down that shaky-cam/destabilizer plug-in, I'll post a link to it.
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High raster effect resolution in large document makes effect dissapear

Hello
I'm making some graphics to be printed on a car. I have some lines with outer glow on them, but Illustrator won't render these unless I use 72DPI in raster effects reslution. I would like to go higher, but it won't give me anything. Guessing it's to heavy for Illustrator maybe? Is there anything I can do about this? I'm making my graphics in 1:1 scale, but I do it in a lower scale since it's just vector art anyway, however how would that effect my glow? Since it's a raster effect.

but I asked the printer and he said 300DPI
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Suppose you've got a pixel that measures 1/75th inch. How many round dots will be required to at least roughly render that square as a square? At least four dots. In other words, you'd have to be printing with a halftone screen of at least 150 LPI for pixelation to be visible. And even at that, the assumption would be a pixel that is perfectly aligned with a halftone cell, and on only one color sep angled at 0°. Stochastic screening is even more forgiving of lower raster resolution, because all the screen dots are the same size anyway. They are randomly patterned and their frequency is altered to suggest different tones.
So vehicle graphics are not going to be printed at anything near a halftone screen resolution of 300 LPI. (Don't be confused by claims of "high resolution" of composite printers like 1440 or 2880 DPI. Those figures are talking about printer spot size, not tone cell size.)
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Animated snow GIF

I am trying to create a simple animation of snow falling.
This will be
in front of a mountain scene that I have already created. Can
anyone
point me to a tutorial on how to create a snow effect? Flash
doesn't
seem to be an option because I want this to be a gif that I
can tile
horizontally across the top of a web page. Is there any way
other than
manually animating all the flakes over all of the frames? My
other
obstacle is that with each successive frame there needs to be
"new" snow
coming down again from the top.
I'm having a VERY long morning trying to figure this out.
Thanks in advance.
David

On 02 Jan 2008 in macromedia.fireworks, David G. wrote:
> I am trying to create a simple animation of snow
falling. This will
> be in front of a mountain scene that I have already
created. Can
> anyone point me to a tutorial on how to create a snow
effect? Flash
> doesn't seem to be an option because I want this to be a
gif that I
> can tile horizontally across the top of a web page. Is
there any way
> other than manually animating all the flakes over all of
the frames?
> My other obstacle is that with each successive frame
there needs to
> be "new" snow coming down again from the top.
Check back a week or so for Project Seven's Christmas
greeting. They use
animated snow as a background.
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email:
http://makowiec.net/contact.php

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Add Snow To An Image (Part 2)

This message is for Dennis Trevor or anyone who can help.
Dennis,
I responded with the following message but I think I marked your response "correct answer" too soon.
This is great! Unfortunately a friend took the original pic with her
iPhone so I'm limited on the resolution. I can use what you've done "as
is" for the brochure I'm doing but if you could refine the snow a bit (more sleet, smaller flakes on the green jacket on the left and more snow on the top of the dogs), that would be terrific. Short of that, how do I find the EC7 software that you referred to?
Thanks so much for your help, Sandy

snelsoninthemtns wrote:
Where do I set Spacing 5% (couldn't find that)
snelsoninthemtns wrote:
I walked through the Photoshop Snow Effect - Add Falling Snow To A Winter Photo and came up with this:
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How to make snow stay after falling to the ground

Hi,
I'd like to make an animation on which one can simply see snow falling down. I know this is easy to do with the CC Snow Effect. But what I didn't find an answer to is: I want to make the snow stay on the ground so that in the end the ground is covered by snow. Any idea or tips how to do this?
Thank's a lot for your comments!

Add a white solid to the scene and animate a mask to simulate snow rising.
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Apple TV keeps freezing and snow picture

Guys
Again I need your help.
My AppleTV keeps freezing and have white dots while displaying menu and playing the content.
When I try to restart it it shows the Apple logo and freezes while the dots keep appearing and flashing (think Matrix movie). It doesn't make any sound. I have unplugged the cable/ restart it (took ages), changed HDMI cable.
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Any Ideas

I am also having this same issue. I tried both HDMI and Component connected directly to my TV. Cables are known good with my Bluray player.
I did a factory restore and it got to 1.0 software. I still had the snow effect and also freezing on the bootup movie. After a few attempts I was finally able to get through to the menu and upgrade the software the latest release, and it still had the snow effect on either HDMI or Component. It also froze in the menu system.
From that troubleshooting, I think it is hardware issue. I have left the apple TV unplugged since last night. when I get back home for the evening, I will check again and see if the long time of being unplugged will fix it. If not, time to take it to the Apple Store.
Had it for a little more then a year and it is already broken. Poor Poor quality, but that is what I get for getting the first gen.
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