third-party plug-ins for AE(cs4) in 64-bit

[Kevin Camp]

when you say 64-bit, are you talking about color space (16 bit-per-channel x rgba = 64-bit color) or 64-bit addressing as in xp-64 and 64-bit software….?

i do believe that at least a few of those effects mentioned work in 64-bit color (16 bpc)…. however none of them work in 64-bit processing/addressing… but ae is only a 32-bit program, so i believe that would limit them to 32-bit anyway.

also, from what i’ve heard, the next version of ae is not planned to be 64-bit either, so you may need to wait a while before getting 64-bit effects…

to get around the 32-bit memory addressing limit in ae, you only need a 64-bit os, multiple processsing cores and cs3-4 (or ae6.5 and nucleo). the later ae versions and nucleo can use multiple render engines, one for each core, with each render engine grabbing up to 2gb of ram (8 cores = 16 gb of ram), so it’s not as bad as it sounds….

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Todd Kopriva]

also, from what i’ve heard, the next version of ae is not planned to be 64-bit either, so you may need to wait a while before getting 64-bit effects…

I’d be curious to know where you heard that.

And we’d also be curious to know what you want and what you think. (See this post:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/952114 )

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[Alan Mills]

I’m running AE CS4 in Vista 64 and have all my Trapcode (Shine, Starglow, 3d Stroke, Form and particular) plugins working fine.

What problems are you facing exactly? Installation or runtime? I didn;t do any special installation to get them working either.

Admittedly I’ve not done much with them in CS4 as yet but they’re all appearing to work.

[Kevin Camp]

i heard it here… and i will admit that i don’t know how reliable the source was.

i believe it was just before cs4 was released… at the time it made sense, due to how well the multi-rendering seems to be working in ae. but with the pc version of photoshop being 64-bit, it would make me think that adobe is developing 64-bit versions of the rest of their line up… but will it be cs5 or 6…

sorry if i was furthering a bad rumor… do you happen to have any insights on this…? 🙂

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Todd Kopriva]

do you happen to have any insights on this…? 🙂

I’m sure that you won’t be surprised by my stock answer:

I can’t comment on future Adobe product plans.

I can, however, point you to the blog of Michael Coleman, product manager for After Effects. He has two posts in the middle of February about 64-bit operating systems and the possible futures for After Effects with regard to 64-bitness.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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[Kevin Camp]

thanks for the link todd… i’ll stop commenting on adobe’s future products as well. 😉

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW