Flare-up Videos with Particleillusion 3.0

The software is a feature-packed, standalone particle effects application
that reduces the complexity involved in the process of generating animated
sequences. You need to import the movie clips or image sequences to
Particleillusion, and choose the particle effect to be applied. Next, save the
output as a video file. The effects library includes more than fifteen hundred
particle emitters or effects. You can also make your own particle effects using
scratch or by changing the number of particles, colors or velocity.
Particleillusion has some advanced tools such as 'Super emitters, which create
other particle emitters automatically. Here we show you how to create a simple
animation that would move fire sparkles around a pillar. You can use it with any
video editing or image editing application like Adobe After Effects, Flash or
Autodesk Combustion.

Right click on the existing layer and select the new layer. Right click on the new layer and choose background image icon. From the window select the pillar image file.	Double click on Simple Sparkles particle from the library and on the window, change the color of the particle. Next, click anywhere on the image and you will see a circle.

Right click on the circle and select record position from the menu. Click and drag the mouse to draw the path that the particle would take during motion.	Go to the animation window and change the frame end value according to the path that the particle would take. Press the start animation icon and you would see particles moving