Sorry for the late reply. Basically the project is set up at 1920×1080 and it is not possible to re-size the entire project. Also, as detailed in the help documents, the duration of the effect is governed by the physics of the particles, and so it’s not easily extended. Instagram prefers videos that are either 9×16 or 4×5, so you can use a guide with those aspect ratios to layout your fireworks, and then trim the finished render down to size. Similarly, to have lots of different items appear at different times – just duplicated the project and render out each object individually, then sequence them together in a seperate After Effects project, or use an editing app. Set the blending mode to screen or add if they overlap. My email address is in the help document, email me directly and I will email you some guides to use when laying out content for instagram.

A red X suggests that your copy of Particular has not been licensed and is rendering in demo mode.

Hi, the trial version of trapcode will render a big X over the screen. You can use any background, including video. You can render the fireworks on black, then combine them with video in After Effects or Premiere by using the “screen” or “add” blending mode.

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...deadlines man, sorry. I don’t have the project in front of me, but from memory the source artwork is rendered as particles using several different effects – I think about 10 layers in total. Particular is one of those, and in addition to being part of the main effect it’s also used to generate the optional background. You don’t need it for the main bang – as you’ve discovered – but it will help the overall effect look better. It produces a lot of the sparkles and small trails that make it look more authentic. I actually used this template for a broadcast project a few months ago and thought it could do with an overhaul, so I’m planning to do a minor update in the next few months. It’s a few years old. Regarding sound fx – I’m sorry but that’s not my area of expertise and I haven’t looked. I would have thought that fireworks would have been fairly simple sound effect to find? Anyway thanks for your kind words and apologies again for taking so long to reply.

Hi, Thanks a lot for your reply !

Its Working fine now but still as you said to get Better effect i will try to Render it with Trapcode Particular. Regarding sound effects, I have found what i needed and have uploaded to the file. Its Perfect Now.

Thanks.

Thanks for your purchase. I think I mention that this isn’t easy in the help documents. The fireworks effects has several particle layers that are driven by real physics, and so the particles move apart and fall down over time due to gravity. It isn’t feasible to change the settings so the overall effect looks the same but the text/graphics don’t fade away. The only suggestion I have is to slo-mo the render. You could try rendering at a higher frame rate, eg 50, 60 or 100 frames per second, and then time-remapping the render to slow down and last longer. HTH.

The project does not render with a transparent background, but is intended to be composited onto a background using either the add or screen blending mode. This is simple to do in Premiere, After Effects and Final Cut. Using the screen/add blending mode looks better and more realistic than just having a transparent background.

Yes. You will receive a message from After Effects saying it is updating the project but everything will work the same.

Great, Thanks!

This is probably a weird Adobe bug that is specific to your combination of OS and AE. The project works fine on CC 2018 and High Sierra, but I have not tested CC 2018 on any other OS. I have emailed you copies of the project that have all the text layers deleted so hopefully that will get you going. FWIW when I installed CC 2018 on my Mac running an older OS, it wouldn’t open without numerous error messages, I ended up updating to High Sierra just to see if it would fix the problems, which it did.

The background fireworks are a single layer that can be turned on or off. This is clearly illustrated in the help document that comes with the project, and the layer in the comp is labelled “Optional: Turn this layer on for background fireworks”.

The background fireworks are keyframed to stop at roughly the same point as the main image, but if you want them to continue then just open up the background fireworks composition, select all layers and press “uu” to reveal all keyframes. Delete the hold keyframes that are roughly at the 06 second point (on all 3 layers) and the background fireworks will continue indefinitely.

The overall firework effect is made up of about 10 individual layers, each of which has some type of glowing particle. The softness is just part of the overall look. If you want it sharper, you can try adding an adjustment layer to the top of the composition and applying the “unsharp mask” effect, crank the settings up (amount=200, radius =2) and adjust to suit.

Hi, thanks for your purchase. You don’t want to key the render, you want to use the “screen” or “add” blending modes.

In Premiere you select the layer in the timeline, and in the “effect controls” palette open the “opacity” twirly. You will see the blend mode selector there – change it from “normal” to screen or add.

If you want to get clever you can use 2 copies of the same layer with different blending modes, e.g. the bottom layer set to screen and the top layer set to colour dodge, then play with opacities to suit. The final look will vary depending on what colours you have.

No, the project does not come with any sound. But over at audio jungle you can find many firework sound effects for as little as $1.

Hi, thank you for replying. Yes I saw the control and settings and the colour attribute but nothing changes. By the way the rocket I don’t care because it’s currently white and could be acceptable, but the explosion remains red (whereas I set green colour).

Indeed it would be easier by email, but I don’t have it. Thanks for support

Ahh I think the problem is that you’re running AE with a language other than English, which has broken the expression that controls the colour. My personal email address is in the help document that came with the project. Please email me and I will send you a copy of the project with international expressions – I am in the process of upgrading and fixing my projects here so problems with other languages don’t occur.

Ha yes it’s that !! Indeed i’m running AE in french and I have warnings saying “project contains error on expression … property missing or renamed …”.

i’m completely newbie with expressions that’s why I didn’t think about that. And you’re not the only one, there are other projects where I have warning and where controls are not working. Now I know why thanks.

I send you email right now

I do not have a copy of CS 5.5 to test it with, all I can do is save a CS 5.5 version from CS 6 and hope it works. If you purchase the project it comes with help documents and my direct email address. Just send an email and I will send you a CS 5.5. project. It should work as I can’t think of anything in it that is new from CS 6 onwards, but the save-as CS 5.5 doesn’t always work perfectly.