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Organizing plugins
Does anyone have a technique or method for organizing the plugins you use most in AE? For example, say I use Fast Blur a lot. And going through the long drop-down list of plugins to grab it each time is a bit tiresome. Any way to weed out the plugins I know I’m not going to be using, to make my drop-down list a lot shorter? Or is there a way to even organize it by my own custom categories? I could manually go into the plugins folder and take out the ones I’m not using so they don’t get loaded, but this could be even more of a hassle. Just looking for suggestions of things I might not have thought of to try.
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You could use the Effects window/ palette with view set to folder and sort your plugins (kinda the same like pulling them out of the plugin folder anyways). All other methods like changing plugin names and categories using dubious tools will create more problems than they solve (they confuse AE’s internal use of plugins and you’re likely to not be able to transfer projects to not modified machines).
Mylenium
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Yeah, I tried viewing it by Explorer Folders. All that does is list them in a different way. I can’t move them around at all. I guess if I go into Explorer and reorganize the folders, it would show up there the same way. But yeah, that’s the same as just putting them into an “inactive folder”. I wouldn’t want to screw anything up with AE. I was hoping there was a way to organize them inside AE. But perhaps not. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
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Yeah, it’s quite annoying, but I would bet that in AE 7 we would be able to reorganize the entire interface just in the new CS 2 progs.
Mylenium
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