So We've Made Snow . . . . Now How Do We Make Rain?

I know that iMovie HD has a rain effect but is there any way to make one without requiring the video to be passed back and forth between iMovie and FCE? (Photoshop and Motion are available).

Ian R. Brown wrote:
.. So We've Made Snow . . . . Now How Do We Make Rain? ..
I'm still open to any other ideas people may have.
guess, this will be your first exercise in Quartz Composer http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2245797&tstart=0 , Ian ..
click to enlarge
• ctrl-click on Josh' blizzard-download, choose open with QC (you did install meanwhile?) ..
• click on the far right Gradient-Patch, enable it (=this adds just a nice blueish background, to make snow/rain better visible while editing) ..
• now select the Image-Patch far left, replace the nice Snow Flake by a simple white dot .. or any shape, your 'drops' should look like ..
• select the Particle-Patch.. now, play with the many knobs .. the X Velocity created for Snow that 'windy' behavior.. rain is straight forward... ehm.. downwards.. the Z-axis adds some depth.. try ..
don't forget to switch-off the gradient, when satisfied with results..
happy rain making..
PS: replace the snow/rain image with one of a dog and a cat ..

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