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OSX Leopard & Adobe CS3 — Please read before installing Leopard
Please note what Adobe says about CS3 and Leopard compatibility:
“…the following CS3 applications will require updates for full compatibility with Leopard: Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and our professional video applications, including Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, After Effects CS3 Professional, Encore CS3, and Soundbooth CS3. We expect to publish free Leopard compatibility updates for the video applications in December 2007 and for Acrobat 8 Professional and Adobe Reader 8 in January 2008.”
Again, please be aware of this limitation, which Adobe says will not be fixed before December ’07.
Adobe has a PDF on the subject that you can read here.
[edited, 11/1/07, to add the following]
Please also note one of the FAQs answered in Adobe’s PDF:
Does Adobe recommend running Production Premium or Master Collection before its updates are available?
A. Yes, we are comfortable recommending this. Our testing revealed a few issues in specific workflows when running the video professional applications on Mac OS X Leopard. Many video professionals would not encounter these issues on a day-to-day basis.
Before installing Leopard on your CS3 production machine, we recommend closely reading Adobe’s entire document linked above.
We look forward to you sharing your progress with the rest of the COWmmunity. We hope only to spare you any unneccesary interruptions to your work.
Best regards,
Your Friends at COW Central
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Not to quibble, but the release says the update is required for “full compatibility,” which is a lot different than “doesn’t work with…”
I have Leopard, and After Effects CS3 seems to be running quite smoothly. There may be certain features that aren’t fully compatible, but I haven’t encountered any problems yet.
Aside from that, you have to love this little dance between Adobe and Apple where they can’t seem to coordinate their activities at all, even though their two products are used together by a very large section of their user bases. Pretty bizarre…
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Yeah…. Even though it wasn’t “tested” everything in After Effects CS3 seems to be working great for me, and nucleo.
Mac Pro 2.66 Quad Xeon, running Leapord
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This warning has been pretty well debunked. CS3 apps DO WORK with Leopard, there are just certain limited workflows/features that may not perform as expected. According to Adobe, these are issues that would not affect the average video designer on a day to day basis at all.
In fact, Adobe says they are perfectly comfortable recommending that users install and use Creative Suite products until the updates are ready in December.
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Why the hell can’t they actually say which features wont work? They must know what they are? Surely it’s in their interests?
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I think I’m having SERIOUS issues with AE CS3 and Leopard.
I unwisely installed leopard without checking compatibility.
I have several issues that have cropped up since the upgrade. It seems whenever I try to do anything in 3D space, the location of the layer is nebulous. When I click to move the layer it’s in one place, but then when I let go, it jumps to another position. While trying to use trapcodes 3d stroke, it’s not even consistent, and the stroke jumps all around with no consistent relationship to the path. This may not be leopards fault, but I’ve never had these issues before.
HELP!
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This is the thread ANNOUNCING potential conflicts. If you want to solve those problems, please repost this in the “real” AE forum below. You may also want to swing by the Trapcode forum.
Good luck!
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I just did some work in 3D space on Leopard, and had no issues, especially not the ones mentioned above. It must be something specific to your setup. I am on a Macbook, are you using a Mac Pro? If so, which gfx card?
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Actually, it’s not just Adobe. Even on the audio front, MOTU, one of the most pro-Apple software companies known to man (they’re such Apple zealot’s that they refuse to sway from Apple’s doctorines even years after Apple itself has given way to other ideas (contextual menus)) are having trouble with Leopard… big trouble. It seems that Apple didn’t fully release a good SDK soon enough to developers, or changed things at the last minute. I know that Core Audio had some major changes from Tiger in which companies were not able to deal with in time. Of course, to Joe Public, Apple isn’t going to bother making a big deal about the inner workings of Core Audio, but you’d think that they’d give developers a bit more leahway.
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