rendering

What resolution do you use?
What particular filter do you use?

Ok, "resolution" was not the best word.
What image size (in pixels) are you trying to render?

That's a small image indeed. We've rendered a 7500x4000 Sketchy Painting today correctly. Do you use FF in the standalone or in the plugin mode?

I have the same problem, and not only with Sketchy Painting,.. but at least another two,.. "Mess Painter" and "Paint HDRtist".. I'm sure I would find more but too frustrating to keep working of other plugins ..and finally realising that they won't render out.

Whats really annoying is I have seem in the comments page for "Paint HDRtist", (which is a fantastic plug in by the way), that people on the Mac have had this problem for at least a year! .... And no fix to this problem to this day.

I'm more angry with myself for buying the last upgrade. I didn't realise this problem was a bug, I actually thought it was to do with my ram or computer, but i have upgraded ram and new computer and same problem,...and it was confirmed when i read other peoples comments.

If your on a Mac... best advice I could give you is don't buy FilterForge or upgrade until they fix this problem, because they don't seem to be too worried about putting time to fixing it,...and it really isn't worth using Filter Forge unless this gets fixed... It's a pity because Filter Forge is great..... if it worked.

You can get a beta key by contacting support.

Server support, ... meaning you can't download, other filters, other than the ones that have come with the Beta?.. Why is that?

This didn't happen on previous versions of beta software?

Is it to purposely limit the experience perspective buyers will have, to only those few filters? (which happen to work fine).

What about the other filters that render out really slow on the mac?(slow to the point of not even rendering at all and freezing.)

There is no reason why you would limit server support?..It's a Beta... so it will still only have limited time on it's use (30 or 60 days to whatever).

Surely for a beta to be "beta tested", you would want to explore the software as much as possible?.... Running only those few filters that it comes with in the beta version,... is not even tipping the ice berg in exploration.

So,... why limit people to only those few plugins?

First thing I tried was to manually import the filters, but here is no Folder called Filter Forge 5 to copy the filters I have from previous versions.

There is only

/Users/Your_User_Name/Library/Application Support/Filter Forge 3/

and ,..

/Users/Your_User_Name/Library/Application Support/Filter Forge 4/

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Excuse my ignorance. It's the busiest time of the year for me now,..and I'm just trying to sneak in some time to trial the Beta, and see if I can finally use it... and this has made me a little sloppy in reading your feed back properly.

Because the beta download was working straight after the installation,..(I thought it registered my current licence key somehow), so I didn't think I needed any additional "beta key".

So when you guys mentioned it as I was skimming through the feed back here,.. I dissreguarded what you where saying,.. thinking that maybe you didn't realise I was a current holder of a licence.

I sent for the beta key now,... so I will wait for it too get back to me...

It's been years now,..so really...can't wait to see if this will finally work. Crossing fingers.

have the same problem as 'lins'

I've had this same issue in front of support for 2 weeks now. They've duplicated the problem and haven't heard from them since.

This is turning out to be a big waste of my hard earned dollars. I really regret buying this program. And there's no 'warranty' or refunds. I've only had the program for a month. Is this how FF does business?

Depending on the filter, the rendering time may be long or short. This is not exactly a problem of the program, but just of some filter.

Some suggestions to speed the rendering up :

1. Don't keep any browser open when using FF.
Programs like Firefox or Google Chrome steal a lot of memory, slowing the rendering down.

2. If possible, instead to use FF as plugin of Photoshop, use it as stand alone program.