BCC 3 presets to BCC 4.1 presets

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi,

The presets from BCC 3 should work in BCC 4 … you just need to copy them into the right directory (the BCC 4 presets directory in this case) so that the BCC 4 filters can see them. Or you can just navigate to the BCC 3 filter preset directory.

Cheers,

Peter.

[William Busby]

Thanks Peter, but these are within an Avid custom effect bin which is a .avb file. What I think I’ll have to do is save each one within BCC’s own presets, like you said, go through the motions of loading each one, then saving to the Avid custom effect directory so they’re readily available.

Thanks,
Bill

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Bill,

You don’t actually need to do that – all you need to do is to navigate to the following place (assuming you are on a windows system):

c:\Program Files\BorisFX, Inc

at which point you should see any versions of BCC that you have installed. Go to the BCC Presets 3 AVX folder and you should see a folder for each filter. Inside these folders you can find the BCC preset files. Then you just copy the .bcp file from this directory into the appropriate BCC Presets 4 AVX filter directory.

Or you can load and save the presets as you describe, but I think it’s faster to just copy the presets from location to location using the Desktop. Either method will work fine though.

Cheers,

Peter.

[William Busby]

Hey Peter,

Thanks for trying to help, I really appreciate it and I totally understand what you are saying, and I’m aware of where the BCC presets are located. The thing is, when using BCC as a plugin with Avid, and saving ANY (not only BCC) plugin’s you have tweaked to a bin created & given a name in Avid, all of the effects, filters, what have you, are all placed inside a proprietary file with the extension .avb. For example, let’s say the bin is called MyFx… the file within that particular Avid Project is called MyFx.avb. Using one of these effects in a sequence is merely a matter of a drag & drop process on the timeline.

None of these custom settings were originally saved WITHIN BCC’s own save function (.bcp), therefore simply seeking them out in BCC 3.0’s preset directory at the desktop level & moving them to the 4.1 BCC preset directory isn’t going to work… because they aren’t there. I have to GET them there… one by one so I can then proceed the way you describe. And the only way it looks like I can do this is:

1. In Avid, drag effect icon to timeline
2. in Avid’s Effect Palette, use the plugin’s save to preset feature.
3. repeat for all…
4. Close Avid, then navigate to BCC 3.0 preset directory at the desktop level & move to 4.1

Hope that makes sense, because at this point I just woke up a bit ago & my brain is still like scrambled eggs 8-\

Thanks again,
Bill

[Peter Mcauley]

Hey Bill,

I now have a much clearer picture of the problem that you are trying to solve. I was under the impression that the effect settings that you needed to move had already been saved with the BCC load / save mechanism. Unfortunately I have no information to offer you regarding a better way to handle the situation other than the one you describe but I’ll ask around in engineering to see if there is someone that might have a better idea on how to expedite the process. I’ll let you know if they can think of a solution for you that would work better than the one you describe.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Bill,

This is the workflow that engineering has offered to get past this issue:

“He should be able to apply the effects from the bin, then promote to BCC4 AVX 2.0, then save as BCC4 bin presets. Then he can uninstall BCC3.”

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Peter.

[William Busby]

Thanks Peter. I thought about that workflow a long time ago but failed to mention I’m using Avid XDV 3, which is only AVX 1.5 compatible. Thanks for the quick reply though.

I’ve finished all 21 with my workflow mentioned in my previous post… took maybe 20 tedious minutes total, but got it done 🙂

Thanks again,
Bill