FxPlugs missing. No Smoothcam, Bad TV, etc.

[Matt Shea]

I know this thread is old, but I just came across the problem myself. “Greg Strange’s” post above is useful, though if it doesn’t help you you’ll need to take one more step. I was missing the “Bad TV” effect, possibly others.

First, quit Final Cut Pro and follow Greg’s instructions above to insure you have the necessary files in your library.

Then follow the instructions here (From Apple’s support site) to delete your FCP user preferences. This shouldn’t affect any projects you have, but will of course reset your preferences and saved settings to default:
1. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences—the tilde (~) represents your Home folder.
2. Remove the “com.apple.finalcutpro.plist” file from the Preferences folder.
3. Remove the “Final Cut Pro User Data” folder from the Preferences folder.

Launch Final Cut Pro. It may take a minute or two longer the first time to rebuild those files. Your effects should now be back.

[Alistair Ruane]

I have looked in the Library>Application Support Folder and Can’t Even Find Pro Apps Help!

When facing a difficult task act as if it’s impossible to fail – If you are going after Moby Dick take the tartar sauce.

[Greg Strange]

either you’re looking in the wrong library or you need to reinstall. make sure you look in

~ / library / Application Support

not

“user” / library /

[Alistair Ruane]

Thanks Greg, I was looking in the wrong Library. Everything seems to be there and smoothcam is in the effects tab in FCP but doesn’t do anything when applied to a clip. Any ideas?
Thanks for getting back to me I appreciate the time.
Alistair

When facing a difficult task act as if it’s impossible to fail – If you are going after Moby Dick take the tartar sauce.

[Greg Strange]

smoothcam works in the background. you should have a small box that comes up immediately after applying the effect that says “analyzing ‘clip name’ ”

[Alistair Ruane]

thanks for the help greg. I have managed to get it to work but had to take the clip and save it out from quicktime as a mov and when I imported that smoothcam started to do its thing. I think it just didn’t like the codec I was using for some reason.Thank again for the time. It’s much apreciated
Alistair

When facing a difficult task act as if it’s impossible to fail – If you are going after Moby Dick take the tartar sauce.

[Rob Churcher]

Hi Matt

I have had the same experience with missing plug ins. I have followed the advice kindly given by Greg which did not rectify the problem. I then took the advice from your post only to find that these files are not present in this location.

Are you or anyone else able to shed any more light on this situation?

Regards
Rob

[Fabian De leede]

Hi,

I do not have the same problem on my own mac, which has the smootcam effect, but I don’t have the effect on a mac at my school (which i use for editing some times). on my own mac I couldn’t find the proapps folder and the plugins. but smootcam works perfect. i want it a the school computer too because that one is an newer imac an far more powerful so it would work better i except.

i tried everything said in this post.
Please help me.

Fabian de Leede