Existing users, 
This is an outrage! If you use After Effects plug-ins as a professional editor, this is an unacceptable decision, and you may want to stay on a PPC system for quite a while to protect your investments. For example, users of Redgiant's excellent $400 plug in "Magic Bullet" can't grade from within FCP anymore, they have to switch to Motion 2. (If you are working with several video tracks forget getting them back after you reimport from Motion.)
Apple MUST re-introduce support for After Effect plug-ins on Intel Macs!
Apple Final Cut Pro
Video editing, compositing & special effects.
Version: 7.0.1
Plug ins not supported on Intel Macs: 5.1 for PPC and Intel are NOT the same!
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: steve r. Saturday, May 13 2006 @ 05:05 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Go to Apple's website and have a look at the Final Cut Pro 5.1 features, you'll be promised "Support for many third-party After Effects plug-ins". Buy it, install it on your new Intel Mac, and you'll find Apple has dropped support for these plug-ins! Read the small print on Apple's 5.1 release notes: "Final Cut Pro 5.1 does not support Adobe After Effects plug-ins on Intel-based
Macintosh computers."
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Plug ins not supported on Intel Macs: 5.1 for PPC and Intel are NOT the same! - ReubenW
I agree. I'm sure there are countless people holding back from upgrading to the Intel Mac Pro and sticking with the PPC - until After-Effects Plug-ins as supported. I'm sure there are plenty of customers out there who feel the same. Apple - we hope you're listening. You are holding back your own sales! I've currently got a Quad PPC and it'll do me just fine for the moment. I would trade up to the 3.0 Intel Mac Pro if the After Effects plug-ins would be supported in FCP5.1 or later.Reply to This
Friday, August 18 2006 @ 08:19 PM PDT