As Catalina effectively kneecaps the 32-bit version of Studio Artist, I'm wondering what kind of workarounds people are planning on using? I'm trying to come up with some new workflow strategies that will allow me to use SA 64-bit in a similar manner to how I've used the 32-bit version.
I know I can use the "rocess with PASeq->images to images menu command to work on video files if I first export them as an image sequence and then bring through Studio Artist. But I'm at a bit of a loss as how to manually work on image sequences sequentially in Studio Artist.
In the past I could load a video as a movie layer or as a source file and do whatever work I needed to but this is not an option as far as I can tell in the 64-bit version of SA. Movie brushes are also no longer an option.
If anyone has ideas on how to re-create some of that functionality, I'd love to hear it.
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You can use image folder brushes to replace movie brushes. You lose the convenience of it all being in a single movie file, but gain some advantages with ease of use and not restricting all of the images to be the same size.
You are correct, you can process a folder of numbered frame images to numbered frame images using the 64 bit build. Action : process with paseq image folder to image folder. So the frame images just need to be numbered in order.
I would not be in any hurry to upgrade to osx 10.15. Not just for studio artist, but for all kinds of creative software you may have. As well as archived quicktime movie files, audio apps and interfaces, etc. keep in mind that apple is dropping a number of the old quicktime codecs from working with player x.
I'd keep a boot disc of osx 10.14 so you can boot your computer pre osx 10.15 if you want to work with any existing 32 bit apps. Or instal parallels if you must run osx 10.15 and get it setup with running a osx 10.14 partition.
We have been looking at future proofing some of the code base. More on that later in the year.