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missing plugin
Hi all,
I’m opening an old archived project. At the time, I exported the finished edit to dv, and I’d like to re-export to uncompressed.
I’ve archived all footage nicely like a good boy 😉 but it turns out I’m missing a plugin that was installed on the machine I originally edited on, to which I don’t have access on my current machine.I don’t mind re-doing the effects, but other than alerting me at startup that the plugin is missing, I can’t see any way of tracking down where in the project the plugin was actually used. The original project was done a long time ago, and there are several sequences, 45 minutes long, and lots of short clips = lots of cuts.
I can’t really imagine tracking it manually.any ideas?
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2 Replies
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I don’t believe that there’s a way to reveal the effects used in a sequence.
You can right click after selecting all the clips and choose to remove all the video filters, un-checking motion and opacity, but that will of course remove everything else.
The missing filters will show up as unsupported or missing in the effects panel so you should be able to go through each clip and check pretty quickly.
It should also tell you “which” filter is missing at startup so that you can reinstall if needed.
Sorry, no real solution, but that’s probably the only way to go about it.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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hi Vince,
thanks for the response.yes premiere did tell me what filters are missing at startup. without that I would have never even noticed anything was missing.
Obviously premiere knows exactly where the missing filters are, since that information is saved somewhere in the project file. I was hoping there was some way to get that information.
I ended up going manually over every clip in the timeline for every sequence. I found every instance of the filters save one, for which I had to open the project file in notepad to finally pin point a short clip that was completely “covered” by a cross dissolve and would not reveal itself in the effects panel until I trimmed the dissolve.
I can’t remember the name of it – there’s some recommended XML utility that you can open project files with and it’s easier to make sense of them than in notepad.
If someone else has any more ideas – for future reference, I would love to know.
Anyway, many thanks again vince
Jon
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