Filter Forge 6 Beta Stage 1

We released the first beta of Filter Forge 6:
https://www.filterforge.com/download/beta6/index.html

Finally, this is something you all have been waiting for: full 64-bit support, with the OSX version rewritten in Cocoa. The old classic 1.5 GB restriction is gone, now the sky is the limit

As always, the beta version is a fully-functional 30-day trial.We're still setting up the beta key generator — please hold your "Where is my beta key" complaints for a few days. UPDATE: beta keys are now being sent automatically if you provide a purchased FF5 license. If you only have a free HU license you will get rejected. Sorry for that! We're fixing the issue, for now please contact the support team directly.

Hooray!!!! That's fantastic news, I can't wait to give it a try.

Thanks guys. Glad to see you finally decided to go through with it.

This is fantastic...

This is very good news and useful that now it will be able to use all the memory available, I have 24 Gb in my mac

Wanted to chime in again and see if there's a way for the 64bit client to pre-allocate my ram more aggressively. I have a dual CPU board with 64GB total ram and have it set to allow 90% usage. I'm able to watch it slowly crawl up so far to 7GB so that's nice, but it seems as though it may be spending unnecessary time allocating more ram when it's avoidable. Just thought it might be a good time for a pre-allocation configuration option similar to the current Ram allocation configuration options. If it helps anything to do that

Sadly the filter I'm using along with a 5k x 5k image to generate is still very slow. Even running on all 32 cores. All the more considering the ideal target image size is more like 12k x 16k

Which brings me to my next point. A Beta Stage 2 Request of sorts.

I'd like to see a new (category/tool/node) set for debugging other nodes, node groups, and entire filters one day. I feel like having this to help optimize our node graphs along with 64bit will supercharge everything way more than 64bit alone. I think the best start for this would be a simple set of timer/stopwatch nodes so that we can at least narrow in on the slow spots. I would imagine if you already don't have in-house node debugging tools/nodes this would become quite helpful for you as well. With 64bit fully unleashing FF finally it seems like the best time for a set of tools to aid us in making the craziest, biggest, most over the top filters in Filter Forge history

Anyway, just some thoughts

This version does not allow server access. Save the filter to My Filters by going into the FF V3 editor and saving it. Then move the file manually from the FF V3 My Filters folder to the My Filters folder for FF 6 beta. You will have to look up file locations...

Hi, guys, I'm having the sabe problem as ddaydreams

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"Access to the server is disabled in this filter forge version"

But I don't have and older version to get the filters from, since I started on version 4 and it never, ever, even opened on my mac! Is there anyway I can get filters to Beta 6, that is the only one that opens on my machine?

Please can someone help me? I'm almost desperate, I have purchased this thing over 2 years ago and it never worked.

thanks

Tank you LexArt!

What a bummer! Now I have to spend more money on something I wouldn't need to!