Snow Blizzard Emitter -

I am working on an animation using the Snow Blizzard Emitter in Motion and was trying to find the control or Life Span of the emission. Basically what I am trying to do is make the snow appear to stop and remain on the screen, looking like it is pilling up on the graphic below. Are there controls with this Emitter to make such an effect? Thanks!

27993buck wrote:
I am working on an animation using the Snow Blizzard Emitter in Motion and was trying to find the control or Life Span of the emission. Basically what I am trying to do is make the snow appear to stop and remain on the screen, looking like it is pilling up on the graphic below. Are there controls with this Emitter to make such an effect? Thanks!
You can use a wipe to reveal the piled up snow on a lower layer. It's crude but works in most cases. Takes a lot of energy to create the snow covered image, though, and to build it so the snow is masked by the alpha channel.
There are several plugins for After Effects that use an alpha channel as the collection driver for particles. I do not know if there is a similar product for Motion. Must be.
bogiesan
Message was edited by: David Bogie Chq-1

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Answered my own question. First of all, its a particle emitter (snow blizzard) not a replicator. Sorry about that folks.
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Hello !
I am a new to use motion 5 and final cut pro x , and i have filmed a scene arround my house i would like to add a layer of falling snow using motion 5 can you please give a little help ?

Funny you should ask. A friend of mine just sent me this link that even includes a great technique for creating unique snow flakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL3pjpkOFDU
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Pyralus wrote:
I decided to try and boot from the Tiger discs, but when I did, all I got was a screen that looked like a blizzard of pixels.
The firmware was likely changed and it's not compatible anymore or the disk is bad.
I was able to boot using the Snow Leopard disc from both my new MBP and my girlfriends MB, but both said that OS X could not be installed on this computer, and I couldn't even use the disc utility to wipe the drive.
Those disks don't have the hardware drivers your machine needs.
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Ian R. Brown wrote:
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guess, this will be your first exercise in Quartz Composer http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2245797&tstart=0 , Ian ..
click to enlarge
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