Making a snow effect

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

David Harbsmeier wrote:
.. Virtix makes a plugin package that includes a snow filter.
isn't Virtix out-of-business for >3y .. ?
I once made a nice snow-effect by abusing a screensaver..
• 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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>> okay, what i want to do is make a fade effect on the
pictures that i
>> have. what
>> i have in the website are 4 pictures, positioned
like this:
>> __________ __________
>> | | | |
>> | 1 | | 3 |
>> |_________| |_________|
>> | | | |
>> | 2 | | 4 |
>> |_________| |_________|
>>
>> each number indicates another picture, plz pardon my
crappy cyber
>> drawing. i
>> want the pictures to fade slowly, starting with 1
and ending with 4. So
>> like
>> this: (image 1 appears) (then image 2 appears) (then
image 3 appears)
>> (finally
>> image 4 appears)
>>
>> I know that there is a fade effect under dreamweaver
behavers but that
>> effect
>> isn't what im looking for because u cannot set the
duration of the fade,
>> nor
>> the time of it.
>> i also tried making .gif animation fade effects in
fireworks, but i
>> dislike
>> that because it takes too much space, increasing my
picture by almost 100
>> kb.
>>
>>
>
>

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