Motion 2.1 & Genarts Sapphire Plug ins

These beautiful plug ins now seem to be incompatible with Motion 2.1 (UB). After emailing Genarts they say its how Apple has re written Motion and that it will no longer support AE plug ins!
Has Apple gone mad!?
Does anyone else have any information on this?
I just bought my shiny new souped up MacPro and now can't use my favourite plug ins with my most used program. Grrrr!

After emailing Genarts they say its how Apple has re written Motion and that > it will no longer support AE plug ins!
Not quite right. It's rewritten only to support both Inteal and Power PC systems, so its "Universal Binary". AE plugins are still supported, but only on Power PC systems. Current versions are incompatible with new Intel Macs.
Has Apple gone mad!?
No. They are switching to Intel. Many developers rewrote their products to support MacIntel products, so it's the plugins developer you should blame, not Apple.
Besides's, thats the cost of buing a "shiny new souped up MacPro" - not everything works smoothly on new Macs yet.
Hope this helps.
Michal

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This a message to "Andy" who frequents this discussion group. It was for his comments on his plug in site (Great free and useful plug-ins by the way) but the image verification isn't working. Others may find it useful if they're interested in converting old 4:3 video to 16:9 widescreen TV's.
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This seems so simple, but I cannot find it anywhere. I am using motion to create moving pictures and text. I want the text to blur in and out slowly (all of the letters at the same time). I found the text sequence blur but the letters will only be in sequence like left to right or random, correct? I have looked for 3rd party plug-ins but can't find anything as simple as a transitional blur for text. Any suggestions?
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