Comments on: Unplugged 1: Sean Safreed (Red Giant Software)

By: Paul Liptrott

Paul Liptrott — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:26:57 +0000

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

By: Motionworks | CTRL-Z : Undo please...

Motionworks | CTRL-Z : Undo please... — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:03:12 +0000

[...] Sean Safreed, co-fundador de Red Giant Software. [...]

By: Motionworks | Yimbo

Motionworks | Yimbo — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:59:26 +0000

[...] Sean Safreed, co-fundador de Red Giant Software. [...]

By: John Dickinson

John Dickinson — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:06:19 +0000

Thanks for clarifying this John.

By: John Kerr

John Kerr — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:56:39 +0000

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

By: naim

naim — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:17:35 +0000

hi, i use red giant on a 64bit vista pc. all works perfectly… i think

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:01:34 +0000

Hey Felipe, I have a 64bit OS and particular works fine.

By: Sébastien

Sébastien — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:47:06 +0000

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.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:22:07 +0000

Really enjoyed that. New “looks” type plugin on the way.. cool.

By: William

William — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:22:57 +0000

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.

By: John Dickinson

John Dickinson — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:14:45 +0000

Hi Felipe, I’ve forwarded your inquiry to Sean.

By: Felipe Valladares

Felipe Valladares — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:59:37 +0000

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