[Pierre Jasmin]

There appears to be a bug in the updater though,
if a plugin uses the vec lib (that would be things like Altivec optimization as we do) it goes wrong
The fix is here:
https://www.revisionfx.com/generalfaqsOSX104.htm

Pierre
RE:Vision Effects

[Pierre Jasmin]

There is a library missing if you use the 10.4.6 upgrader which might affect tools that use the vector library (that would be things that are Altivec optimized…)

https://www.revisionfx.com/generalfaqsOSX104.htm

Pierre
RE:Vision Effects

[Pierre Jasmin]

If of interest to someone, the directional blur in Smoothkit can take a circular greyscale ramp (or whatever) and control the blur scale and orientation like that, so this sort of effect is easy to do.

Pierre
https://www.revisionfx.com/smok.htm

[Pierre Jasmin]

If of interest to someone, the directional blur in Smoothkit can take a circular greyscale ramp (or whatever) and control the blur scale and orientation like that, so this sort of effect is easy to do.

Pierre
https://www.revisionfx.com/smok.htm

[Pierre Jasmin]

I am quite sure what your exact question is (is this a generic AE question?). Are you asking if my source footage is 23.976 can I add a 3:2 pulldown simply by setting WWWSS or something in the render settings. The answer is yes, this will still render only 23.976 FPS frames and duplicate 2 out of 5 fields so it plays back at 29.97

Pierre

https://www.revisionfx.com/generalfaqsFieldSupport.htm

[Pierre Jasmin]

I am quite sure what your exact question is (is this a generic AE question?). Are you asking if my source footage is 23.976 can I add a 3:2 pulldown simply by setting WWWSS or something in the render settings. The answer is yes, this will still render only 23.976 FPS frames and duplicate 2 out of 5 fields so it plays back at 29.97

Pierre

https://www.revisionfx.com/generalfaqsFieldSupport.htm

[Pierre Jasmin]

We have not received software updates from Apple yet, but I am told it won’t work on MacIntel version as there is simply no support for AE plugins in this version.

Pierre

[Pierre Jasmin]

This confirms our initial testing here and why we are so frustrated about lack of support for AE plugins on MacIntel version in this initial release (the transition not being as friction-free as could be), our initial internal Universal Binaries test suite runs faster on MacPro Book then on a dual G5. Probably a good idea for people to hold on buying computers and updates until we see what Apple will pre-announce at NAB (in a few weeks) if ThinkSecret speculations are at least half true. Also it’s not because Adobe delivers low-expectations in public statements about MacIntel that they won’t jump in faster then people think, again something to better understand after NAB, and to hope for.

Pierre
http://www.revisionfx.com

[Pierre Jasmin]

Let’s hope there will be a 5.1.1 patch to download soon which addresses that and it’s just a side effect of Steve Jobs wanting a Universal Binary shipment by end of march as he publically announced that.

Although I say that MacIntel port is easy for an host like FPC, this assumes the host already supports Mach-O AE plugins, and that part might be a bit more work as users expect on PPC that their old plugins would still work, and that usually cascades into testing… and this information was only made available by Adobe 2.5 month ago, probably not fast enough for Apple to handle.

So the hope is a quick downloadable 5.1.1 patch:

1) That supports PPC side Mach-O versions of AE compatible plugins which would make the Mach-o recompiled plugins run about 30% faster.(https://www.revisionfx.com/pressreleasesfolder/pressrelease62.htm )
2) That supports MacIntel recompiled AE plugins, for which there is no dependance on knowing what Adobe will do since the plugins that ship with AE itself don’t work in other applications then AE and Premiere anyway.

In retrospect and now in theory Apple could have supported Mach-O PPC AE plugins a year ago (the PPC part of a Universal binary), the only issue would have been that third parties would have needed to rebuild the plugin package which they have to do anyway, and which would have been a better outcome then no support at all. To be clear the AE plugin format is just a set of definitions, it’s not like Quicktime and things like that as there is for Apple no reliance on a compiled component provided by Adobe etc.

Pierre

[Pierre Jasmin]

Relief in what sense? It’s not working in FCP for what appears to be marketing reasons (my opinion).
I am saying it’s easy for an host to support, not that FCP has plug the necessary hook so it can work.

Pierre