FxPlugs missing. No Smoothcam, Bad TV, etc.

[Greg Strange]

After much time and effort, I found a solution. Nothing on these posts or Apples boards worked. So in case someone else is in the same position I was, here’s what worked for me:

Go to ~Library > Application Support > Pro Apps >Internal Plug-Ins > FxPlug. You should see two items inside the FxPlug folder: “Filters.bundle” and a folder called “SmoothCam.fxplug”. If you don’t, there’s your problem. I’ve uploaded the files to my server so you can grab them, decompress, and throw them into the “FxPlug” folder. This should get you back on track.

https://www.9mmmedia.com/_dump/fcp_fx_plug_fix.sit

[David Bogie]

Greg, thanks for your efforts on this and congrats for figuring out a fix for you issues. Not many of us would have thought of the route you took or know anything about how to fix it. I have those items in my library.

Too bad this doesn’t help my issue. I’ve got a bunch of FxPlugs that work in Motion but don’t work in FCP. Mostly blurs. I only get a red “failed to render” screen when I apply them. so I’m still looking for a solution to my problem, seemingly similar to yours.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Damion Demeter]

Holy Crap!!!!!!

I don’t know if you still are having this post send you alerts when someone replies, or if you will read this, but I had to post a HUGE thank you!

I got a MacPro (upgraded from a G5) a little bit back, and one project I was working on traveled through the transition since it was still not locked by the time I got fed up and wanted to use my new computer. Things were going fine when I transfered everything over (fresh install of FCP and all non-shipped software) so I sold my old computer after about 3 weeks of smooth sailing (so I thought).

When the project was done, I went to print to tape, and all my FX plugins would show a red screen saying plugin failed to render. I was confused and scared I would have to get rid of all those plugin choices and figure something else out since I am at deadline.

I searched all the apple forums and cow forums with no help. Then I came upon this post. I figured what the hell, and gave it a try. I was missing the smoothca.fxplug folder. Why? I have no clue, as I said, it’s a fresh install of FCP on an out of the box computer.

I don’t know the cause, but am glad I stumbled on this post and now my fxplugins all work again!! Thanks for figuring this out, and even more thanks for posting the solution!!!!

Now, if I could just figure out why I get odd “refresh” looking lines sometimes on playback with this 8800 GT, where I didn’t get them before on this monitor with the old computer…I’ll be a happy camper. 🙂

thanks again!!!
-Damion

[Greg Strange]

far out. i’m glad it worked for you. this community is great, isn’t it?

[Greg Strange]

far out. i’m glad it worked for you. this community is great, isn’t it?

[Matt Devino]

Hey Greg I am having the same problem and the link to the file on your server isn’t working. Is there any way you can put that back up? Thanks for your help.

[Greg Strange]

Try the link again. I hope the fix works for you.

[Bryant Joseph]

I have both those items and smoothcam still does not show in Final cut.

(I assume you were referring to ‘proapps’ in the application support under macintosh hd and not under the user folder’s library>application support, because in the user folder’s application support there was no proapps folder)

Any ideas?

[Brandon Ivey]

Same here. All of a sudden, it doesn’t work on many of our machines. The plugin is there though…

[Greg Strange]

this post is well over a year old and it took a long time to figure out how to fix my problem. the fix has helped several people who have emailed me to say “thanks”. i’m sorry, if this doesn’t solve your issue, i don’t know how to help. all i can say is, if you find a solution, please post to this thread so that you may help others in the same predicament.