After Effects to be 64-Bit Native

News broke early last week at Adobe that After Effects CS5 is going to be 64-bit native, or in other words… you won\’t be able to run the software on a computer running a 32-bit operating system. This might be good news for you, and it could potentially be bad news for you as well… either/or, we will cover the details after the jump, and analyze why Adobe has made this move heading into the future.

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Ah HA! It worked this time

Adobe’s getting pretty quick to leave behind backwards compatibility. They left PPC processors behind with AE CS4 not two years after they went out of production. 64 bit is going to be even shorter, by the looks of it.

For the time being, AE CS4 32 bit running on Snow Leopard is rather shakier than on normal Intel systems. I guess Mac OS 10 .6 is pretty fresh out and there’s a bunch of tweaks to make to OS and software alike.

But I look forwards to the performance improvements that CS5 will bring. After Effects could do with any speed hikes it can get.

seriously! i thought they were going to do it in CS4 with an update or something but i guess i’ll have to hold out for CS5 . Does this mean it will use more than 3GB of RAM ? Cause that would be AWESOME !

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It runs on 64 bit, but my Mac doesn’t list it as a native 64-bit app in the Activity Monitor.

I think it can only use more than 3GB if running multiple instances of the app. I personally prefer not to work in ‘multiprocessor’ mode, as you don’t have the overhead when previewing…. i.e. the wait while it organises all its background processes.

There’s some kind of helper app called AdobeCrashDaemon running. Perhaps After Effects should relaunch under this name.