We have had lots of comments and questions about providing Aperture 3 support with our plug-ins. Specifically, making them 64-bit so you can run them natively within Aperture 3 without having to quit and relaunch Aperture 3 as a 32-bit app. I won’t get into the details here (or anywhere else for that matter) but converting our 32-bit plug-ins to be 64-bit is not as simple as checking a box and re-compiling contrary to what many believe. Other apps may be that easy, but that is not the case for us (or others that I’ve talked to).
Anyway, the long and short of it is that we have been working on making 64-bit versions of the Mac OS X versions of our plug-ins for a little while now and are entering the home stretch. When released, these 64-bit updates will be free of charge to registered owners of the current versions of our plug-ins. So if you’re not registered, now would be a good time to do that.
So the date. You’re probably asking “when will Aperture 3 support be coming?”. As of today, we’re looking at May 15, 2010 to have those free updates available. Sooner if possible, but with what we’re currently working on, it’s looking like May 15, 2010.
