Organizing plugins

[David Bogie]

The perceived need to organize plugins is misplaced; it’s actually a bit of an obsessive-compulsive disorder. The cure is not psychotropic drugs, it was Adobe thoughtfully providing the search function for effects.

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[Richie Tovell]

I see your point’s, it’s just thats how Ive always worked with other software and I know for a fact it does speed up my work flow, I’m not just being obbsessive.

For my audio work, I have installed and used a good many plugins, hundreds infact over the years and have wittled them down to 20 or so that are actually usefull to me and displayed by my apps browser. Now I’m moving in to AV, I’m finding the same thing is happeneing with video effects, it’s cool though, I’ll just delete all the effects I dont use and store them on an external drive.

thanks again guys.

[Richie Tovell]

Nah seem’s ok, Cleared out about 50 digi effect plugs that I know I’ll never use and a few AFX plugs that I didn’t like.

If you know your never going to need to use a “Light saber” “Colidascope” or a “Fog bank” etc etc it’s best that they’re out of your browser,I supose it depends what your using AFX for, my set up’s geared towards video sampling, not so much towards things like animation or advertiseing etc.

Thanks for your concearns though Dave.

Cheers mate 😉

[Stuart Elith]

I don’t know if it works for effects too, but in the scripts folder you can put anything you don’t want in a folder with a name in brackets, and AE won’t look in those folders.

For example, “(unused)” as a folder name, without the “” of course.

May be a way to keep the effects around without them getting in the way.