Migrating Plug-ins from iMac to Mac Studio

[Bill Rabkin]

FCP Plugins are normally stored in these folders:

• Macintosh HD/Users/<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>your-user-name/Movies/Motion Templates/Effects/
• Macintosh HD/Users/<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>your-user-name/Movies/Motion Templates/Generators/
• Macintosh HD/Users/<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>your-user-name/Movies/Motion Templates/Titles/
• Macintosh HD/Users/<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>your-user-name/Movies/Motion Templates/Transitions/

Within these folders are subfolders for each plug-in or plug-in package. If plug-ins are part of a package, there will be a subfolder for the package, known as a “category.” In each category subfolder you will find a subfolder for each individual plug-in in that package.

You can safely delete plug-in and category folders to remove their contents from FCP.

–Bill

[Ken Bennett]

Here is the list of Plug-ins I get when I launch FCPX 10.6 that either need to be updated or deleted (because they are incompatible with FCPX 10.6 of Mac Studio M1 Max). I located the area where the plug-ins are located from your links provided. But I don’t see any of these. And what is Universe? This is getting very confusing.

Help and Thanks.

[Robin S. kurz]

By the looks of things most everything is just painfully OLD. You need to keep things at least semi-up-to-date. Universe, for example, is at version 5.1 (and is in fact Apple Silicon compatible) where you’re on 3.3.1!

https://www.maxon.net/en/red-giant-complete/universe

And whether the FX Factory plugins have updates can easily be seen in it’s app. The rest is simple googling.