So you open mtt_heavy and the particle just stops?

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Are you extending the shotting sequence?

You sure it only goes for 5 frames? That could be only 1 emission, And when you change the duration, lifetime, etc. you have to move your playhead outside of the project for it to take effect, so try that.

Oh, so you didnt make the particle? It's the one already in there?

Originally posted by shutsilver5:

Originally posted by ASZ20:

Double click on the timeline, find the particle and extend it?

It's not there :O

It should be, is your project longer than 60 seconds?

Double click on the timeline, find the particle and extend it?

Right click on the particle and edit it's start/stop/duration and modify them until it lasts longer.

Believe me, I started using SFM when it came out about a year ago, And the tutorials were really hard to follow. The first thing you should do is follow along with the tutorials and construct the video they make, everyone who starts SFM does that. Also make sure to pay lots of attention in the episode about the graph and motion editor. To put things into perspective on how important it is to learn with the tutorials, here is my finished tutorial and the first SFM video I made and my most recent SFM video. First: http://youtu.be/Tia_yss1_9w Most recent: http://youtu.be/jbmqgWX_eek Big difference huh :P.

Originally posted by Suitcase:

okay i have an video editor Sony Vegas but i thoght i can just put the avi file and the sound in the encoder so i dont have to use sony vegas.

let me guess this wont work huh ?

thanks for the quick answer tho

Virtualdub isn't really a good editor, it would be best to put them in Vegas and render it out as a compressed H.264 mp4 so it's small. Virtualdub will only export as a lossless .AVI which are not meant to be uploaded as they are uncompressed and huge.

In SFM in the render window, it says use seperate .WAV file, that's your audio, you do your sequence in Virtualdub then import it with your audio into your preferred video editor.