July 19, 2009 by John Dickinson | 1,920 views | Comments (12)
Over the coming weeks and months I will be holding informal chats with various plug-in developers, designers and people of interest in our industry. This first interview is with Sean Safreed, the co-founder of Red Giant Software. Red Giant Software offers some of the most popular plug-ins on the planet including Magic Bullet Looks and the various Trapcode plug-ins such as Shine and Particular. In this 10 minute chat Sean and I discuss Trapcode Particular 2.0, RGTV, and Sean also hints at a new plug-in coming soon, developed by Stu Maschwitz.
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12 Responses to this post
July 19, 2009 at 12:59 am |
Hi John! I have about a year reading your site, congratulations! and thank you for all. I write now because I’m kindly disappointed about the lack of support for 64bit systems on most popular red giant plug-ins. Particular 2 haven’t support for 64 bits!!!! I want to know something about this since there’s no more information about that, they have plans to do it? how many time we need wait? what about use the actual plug-ins on 64 bit systems, they work? Thank you for this interview anyway. Regards from Venezuela
July 19, 2009 at 2:14 am |
Hi Felipe, I’ve forwarded your inquiry to Sean.
July 20, 2009 at 3:17 am |
hi, i use red giant on a 64bit vista pc. all works perfectly… i think
July 19, 2009 at 9:22 am |
John, what a wonderful idea and interview. Would you consider distributing Unplugged and The Business of Design as podcasts? Available on iTunes etc? I think that would be keen.
July 19, 2009 at 3:22 pm |
Really enjoyed that. New “looks” type plugin on the way.. cool.
July 20, 2009 at 1:47 am |
Well, the lack of 64bit support is just because After Effects, their host support, isn’t 64bit. As long as the support application (like photoshop CS4 on Windows for exemple) isn’t 64bit, plugin developers won’t be able to develop them in 64bit.
July 20, 2009 at 2:01 am |
Hey Felipe, I have a 64bit OS and particular works fine.
July 25, 2009 at 1:56 pm |
To clairfy 64bit support, and trust me, I know its confusing.
There are only 2 current native 64bit OS’s (I should note there may be some small market OS’s, but I am focusing on the 99%) Leopard and Windows Vista 64. As well, the only native 64bit host application I know of is Sony Vegas 9.1.
What this means is, whether you have a 64bit OS or not, your host application (expect Sony Vegas 9.1) is running emulated in a 32bit environment. There is a bin of folders in this emulator that the host and our plugins install to. Now in some cases (we know of them and are fixing them) there are some installation issues (only on Windows that we know of) that cause registration/serialization problems.
This has nothing to do with 64bit support (again except for Vegas 9.1) as your host application is not running as a 64bit app, it is almost always an issue caused by the installation in the emulated 32bit environment.
We do know that the next generation of host applications will certainly take advantage of the 64bit OS environment and re-engineer their applications to be native 64bit. As with all things computer/software there must be an alignment of OS-Host Application-Hardware-Driver Support. If any of you remember in the not so distant past 2 major changes were very slow to evolve and be stable: Vista and Apple’s switch from the PPC to Intel based processors.
I hope this sheds some light on this
John Kerr
Red Giant Software
July 26, 2009 at 7:06 pm |
Thanks for clarifying this John.
February 18, 2010 at 9:26 am |
This may not be a comment that will be popular. I think the way after effects renders these products is going to be it’s future and existence in the industry in the years to come. It’s almost that way for me now as somebody who still in the learning years of after effects
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