After Effects CS4 - no support for them old Power PCs

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Just a heads up - if you’re thinking of upgrading your shop - or your personal computer power pc - it might be high time to get ‘em up on ebay before they’re worth next-to-nothing. I’m sure you can find other uses for them as above.

Micheal Coleman has announced that CS4 will support the newer Intel Macs only.

The new After Effects will support workflow enhancements, new creative options and small refinements that will make you’re 18 hours a day more effective - but only if you’re on an Intel Mac.

Good move? I think so… In web design I add a hefty extra fee if the client wants the site to work in older browsers. Sometimes it takes more than twice the amount of time to make everything work for every possibility.  Things need to move forward - and they need to move forward quickly.

What do you think?

NAB 2008 - Las Vegas Convention Center

Hey guys, just a quick note to let you know that I’ll be hanging out at the GridIron booth on Monday the 14th and Wednesday the 16th showing people both Nucleo Pro and the soon to be released Flow (as seen below!)

Come by and say hi if you get a chance - some great new things to consider.

// jayse

Not to be a commercial - but I do love the guys at GridIron

Here is more information about Flow released today:

GridIron Flow Showcased at NAB on Mac OS X and Windows

Award-Winning Software For Creative Pros To Be Priced At $349

NAB 2008, LAS VEGAS, Nev.,– April 14, 2008 – GridIron® Software
today announced that GridIron Flow software is now undergoing
beta testing with a select group of creative professionals and
is being demonstrated this week on both Mac OS X and Windows at
the NAB Show (booth SL6220) from April 14-17.  Flow is a
revolutionary new approach to workflow management for creative
pros that dramatically simplifies the design process for print,
web, film, and video projects. This award-winning software will
be available later this summer and will be priced starting at
US$349. Creative professionals interested in finding out more
about Flow and participating in the beta program are encouraged
to register at www.gridironsoftware.com.

“Since launching Flow in January we’ve received tremendous
interest from creative pros in every segment of the market,”
said Steve Forde, CEO of GridIron Software. “We are excited to
be getting it into the hands of professionals for some
real-world testing and look forward to making it broadly
available later this Spring.”

Flow automatically tracks your work allowing you to instantly
see the relationships between all your assets in your most
complex projects—all without changing the way you work.  Flow
uses sophisticated Real-Time Asset Tracking technology to record
all Import/Export, Save/Save As, and Copy/Paste actions in a
project. It understands the file formats for virtually all
creative professional applications, including those from Apple
and Adobe, and maintains the relationships between stills, movies,
sound clips, fonts, plug-ins, and color swatches on all local,
network, and removable storage devices.  Flow provides an
intuitive user interface to display this information and delivers
a rich set of features including:

* Workflow Maps—show the files used in a project and how they are
connected to one another as they move from application to
application including all related assets, fonts, color swatches,
plug-ins and even internal file structure like comps and layers.
They are updated in real-time as you work.

* Visual Search—searches for internal file details such as layer
names, plug-ins, fonts, or colors, and Flow will instantly
highlight how and where those elements are used in your workflow.

* Project Time Tracking—automatically records how much time was
spent creating one file, a series of files or an entire project.

* Project Packages—provide a point in time snapshot of any
project and capture everything that went into its creation,
including media files, fonts, color swatches, applications and
plug-ins. Project Packages include a Workflow Map showing how
everything fits together so that everything needed to hand it
off and reconstruct it later will be there.

* Visual Versions—automatically tracks versions of files,
including thumbnails and metadata, as a project evolves allowing
users to easily revert to a previous version of a file anywhere
in their workflow.

* Tags and Annotations—add customized tags and annotations to
assets or projects to support your own business processes.  View
existing file metadata with support for metadata standards like
DICOM, EXIF, IPTC and XMP.

* Flow SDK—offered to tool vendors to easily create custom
extensions to support their file formats and add new functionality
to the Flow environment.

Pricing & Availability

Flow will be available this summer for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard
and for Windows XP and Vista for US$349 per seat. Volume pricing
will also be available upon request. The Flow Beta is currently
available to a select group of professionals and will be made
broadly available from the company website later this Spring.
For more information and to sign up for the upcoming public
beta visit www.gridironsoftware.com.

About GridIron Software
GridIron Software is a leading provider of workflow solutions
for creative professionals. We build powerful tools that enhance
the creative process by eliminating the drudgery that creative
professionals associate with design, video and web workflows.
For more information visit: www.gridironsoftware.com.

New way to Work - Flow

You may have noticed that as a designer - you’re constantly fighting file management. Fonts are missing. Images changed but not updated - “Why are the links to media broken again? Oh yeah - that .aep needed THAT missing plug-in!”

It’s kind of archaic isn’t it?

Well get ready for something entirely new. The good folks at Grid Iron have been feeding me enticing hints at this revolution for over a year now - and now ‘Flow‘ is finally unveiled.

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Flow keeps a visual record of your projects. Their assets, the timeline and revision history, and the relationship between all related files.As you build up your project, Flow’s Real-Time Asset Tracking System automatically tracks your workflow and maintains the relationships between your pictures, movies, sound-clips, fonts, plug-ins, and color swatches on all your local, network and removable storage devices. By understanding the file formats for all popular creative professional applications and tracking all Import/Export, Save/Save As and Copy/Paste actions on both Mac OS X and Windows, Flow can show you how your files are related regardless of where they are stored.

The best thing is that it does this all behind the scenes - you don’t have to tell it to do anything.

Here’s some full screenshots

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download a pdf about flow

PS: if, like many others, you think that Flow’s interface kicks major ass… it’s because my good friend Mark Coleran designed it. You’ve already seen his interface work in films like ‘The Island’, ‘Tomb Raider’, ‘Blade 2′ and ‘Mission Impossible’. Now his work finally comes to us on the desktop.

Depending on my schedule, there’s a possibility that if you’re at NAB in April, you’ll find me showing a few things at the Grid Iron booth (SL6220) - so be sure to come by and say hi.
// jayse

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