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Last edit: May 3rd

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With the CS5 announcement getting closer and closer, several plugin developer / manufacturer announced their upgrade policy to 64bit. Remember, none of your 3rd party plugins will work in AE CS5 due to 64bit.

Scripts and Pixel blender plugins should work.

I decided to regroup all the news on this page to keep it simple for people to track any announcement.

Video Copilot

Twitch: 64b version announced / FREE upgrade (source)

Optical Flare: 64b version announced / FREE upgrade (source)

Red Giant Software

Individual plugins: 64b version announced / $29 Upgrade fee (source)

Magic Bullet Suite: 64b version announced / $99 Upgrade fee (source)

Trapcode Suite: 64b version announced / $99 Upgrade fee (source)

Cycore Effects

Cycore SD: Included in AE CS5 (source)

Cycore HD: 64b version announced / Upgrade fee TBA / FREE for new purchasers (source)

RE:Vision FX

Individual plugins: 64b version announced / Upgrade fee TBA / FREE for new purchasers (source)

DigiEffects

Individual plugins: 64b version announced for Camera Mapper, Fallof Lighting, Aged Film / FREE upgrade (source)

New plugins: 64b version announced for Freeform 3D Mesh Warp, Freeform 3D Displacer / No upgrade necessary / (source)

Damage 2.0: 64b version announced / $49 Upgrade fee from Damage 1 (source)

Freeform: Included in AE CS5 (source)

I emailed Robert Sharp from DigiEffects to have a status update on their other plugins:

Atmosphere, is already ported to 64b / Upgrade fee TBA

Delirium will be ported to 64b, but no specific timeframe.

Aurorix, Berserk, Simulate Illuma, Simulate Camera and Buena Depth Cue will NOT be ported to 64-bit.

Frischluft

Individual plugins: 64b announced / FREE Upgrade (souce: the AE ML)

Imagineer Systems

Mocha for AE: bundled with AE CS5 (source)

Mocha Shape for AE: bundled with AE CS5 (source)

Other plugs: unknown

Synthetic Aperture

Color Finesse LE: bundled with AE CS5 (source)

Color Finesse: 64b announced / Upgrade fee TBA / Free for new purchasers (source)

Gen Arts

Sapphire Suite: 64b announced for version 5 / $599 Upgrade fee from Sapphire 2 (source)

Automatic Duck

AD Pro Import AE: 64b announced for version 5 / Upgrade fee TBA

The Foundry

Keylight: Included with AE CS5 (source)

Boris FX

Boris Continuum Complete: 64b for version 7 (coming may 2010) / $295 upgrade fee from v6 / Free for new purchasers (source)

Zackwerks

Individual plugins: 64b version announced / Upgrade fee TBA (source)

Thanks to Wes & Rob for the updates on Automatic Duck & Gen Arts !

Thanks to Joe for Zackwerks info !

Other plugs: unknown

So your favorite plugin isn’t on that list ? I’ll be updating this page regularly and with NAB next week, news fill fall like autumn leaves, so be sure to come check it often.

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On my last article about the newly announced 64bit After Effects CS5, I stated that Win XP 64 bit won’t probably be supported by the new After Effects. In the comments, I’ve been pointed out that even if AE CS4 was not officially supported on Win XP 64bit, it was running perfectly fine on it.

2 days ago, Todd Kopriva, Adobe After Effects Documentation Lead, wrote on his blog about 64bit and detailed that AE CS5 will require OSX 10.5 or later for Macs, and Windows Vista 64 or Windows 7 64 for PCs. No mentions about Win XP 64.

So, to clear things up for good, I decided to wrote him an email to get the info straight from the horse mouth.

And the answer is: AE CS5 won’t run on Windows XP x64.

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It’s been a long time that I’ve had some spare time to come here and post about AE world.

So much stuff happened since the last post that it would just be impossible to sum up everything, but I’ll try to recap all I can in the next few days.

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Along with the new aescripts.com discussed here, Lloyd also took time to release his new Immigration script, which will help you importing file sequences.

I’ve had the change to beta test the script prior to it’s release, and let me get this straight. If you’re working with file sequences, you gonna have to buy this script. Yes, you read me right, buy. Immigration is the first script to be released as shareware, reminding us the good old days back in the 90’s.

Now you are asking yourself two questions: how much does it cost, and what the hell does it gives me for my 20 bucks ? First of all, you can grab it at 10$ for a limited time only , and for that price you get access to really neat features:

First of all, all file sequences appears as a single file. You can recursively scan subfolder and import the sequences inside AE with the herited folder structure. Of course if you need to update your sequence-v1 by sequence-v2 or replace your sequences by others having the same folder hierarchy and about the names, you can with the replace button. Those of you working with 3D pass renders for compositing in AE knows what i mean. Go check the tutorial for even more cool features, and you’ll be more than happy to get such a wonderfull script for only 10/20$

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Ever wondered who hides behind Zorro’s mask ? Well i can now tell you: it’s Lloyd Alvarez. Only him could create 2 scripts in a row to help lost AE users. Oh yes !

His new script allows you to add a parented null to each of the selected layers, and you can even customize the name. If you need parented nulls, go check it.

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Following a request expressed on the AE mailing list, Lloyd, creator of aescripts.com, developed a quick script that time-reverse keyframes.
You may wonder why you would need a script to execute a standard feature of AE. Well think about this: that feature doesn’t have a shortcut, and you can assign a shortcut to a script. Imagine now that you need to do a lot of time-reversing and there you have it.

If you don’t know how to assign a shortcut to a script, be sure to check my Top 10 scripts post, where I explain how do it.

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The first one about Text Animation
The second one about Rotoscoping

By filling them, you will help Adobe better understand how you work, and it will help them improving AE.

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The best Particule plugin just got better. Also be sure to check my friend Maltaannon’s tutorial on Particular v2.

The plugin cost 399$ and 99$ for upgrade.

For thoses of you who are beta testing my sParticular script, the latest version is already fully compatible with Particular 2, so fear not to use it on the brand new version.

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My good friend Maltaannon just released a quick tutorial on how to smooth things when recreating a CS4 project inside CS3. Go check it here right now.

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