After Effects CS4 Mac to drop PowerPC Support
From Keyframes (Adobe’s After Effects Blog):
After considering all the information, we decided that the benefits of the new workflows and features outweigh the downside of dropping PowerPC support. As a result, After Effects CS3 will be the last universal binary Macintosh version and After Effects CS4 will be Intel-only on the Mac. Premiere Pro, Encore, and Soundbooth are already Intel-only in CS3, so Production Premium Suite users will already be accustomed to this requirement.
[Read Keyframes: After Effects CS4 Mac PowerPC plans]
This is pretty inevitable and not that surprising. If it improves over all stability and performance then that’s great. I know a lot of people are still running G5’s and this will be a big issue for them but I think this is a good decision over all. It’s a pity though that they wouldn’t include some more mac only technology like a decent Apple Script implementation.
[tags] After Effects, Apple, PowerPC, Intel [/tags]
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