• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Automatically remove particular plug-in?

  Posted by Max Frank on June 2, 2011 at 10:40 am

  Hi,

  I’ve got a particular plugin that I think is making my FCP unstable.

  I’ve got it applied to a large number of clips at random places on my hour-long timeline.

  Is there an app that will inspect the timeline and remove just that particular plug-in automagically?

  Thanks,

  Wayne

  John Pale replied 14 years, 11 months ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
• 6 Replies

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  Steve Eisen

  June 2, 2011 at 11:22 am

  Digital Rebelion FCS Maintenance Pack. It may detect your problem. There is no program that will automagically remove the plug-in.

  Steve Eisen
  Eisen Video Productions
  Vice President
  Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
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  Max Frank

  June 2, 2011 at 11:24 am

  HI,

  Thanks Steve,

  It seems that this will automagically do it: https://editmule.com/pages/plugins/plugin.php?id=3

  I’m currently exporting my XML to make it run.
  Failing which I’ll try the DR option, which I have.

  W
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  Jon Chappell

  June 2, 2011 at 3:09 pm

  The Editmule app is doing something slightly different. It is removing filters from your project, which is not the same as actually removing the plugin files from your hard disk.

  It is also removing ALL of them, it is not automatically detecting which ones are causing problems.

  (P.S. Just for the record, FCS Maintenance Pack can automatically detect unstable plugins, but only if they are causing FCP to crash at startup. It will not detect them if they are causing random crashes in the middle of working.)

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  Bouke Vahl

  June 2, 2011 at 3:25 pm

  If you can export to XML, it should be very easy to do.
  Just do a search / replace with a text editor and disable the effect

  search for
  True
  -1
  -1

  YourEffect

  replace with
  FALSE
  -1
  -1

  YourEffect

  hth,

  Bouke

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  Max Frank

  June 3, 2011 at 1:20 am

  Thanks all for the replies.

  Edit Mule worked great for removing all instances of the offending plugin-in on my timeline, but only after I broke my project up into smaller pieces [it seemed to be too large and Edit Mule wasn’t able to complete its operation on the full sized project].

  Thanks for the hints and tips,.

  Wayne
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  John Pale

  June 3, 2011 at 2:57 pm

  Years ago I had a similar problem and just manually uninstalled the plug in (moved it out of the plugins folder)

  Then toggled visibility on the timeline (actually a duplicate), causing everything to unrender…

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