Plug-in Installed But Not Working

[Jeff Kirkland]

Which plugin? XFX handler from Spherico might be handy. At the very least it will tell you the path where FCPX thinks the plugin should be ad gives you a way to globally disable/remove it so you can reapply it with the currently installed version.

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(For some reason I can\’t edit my own posts so apologies in advance for the stupid mistakes and bad English that I can\’t go back and fix)

Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Melbourne, Australia | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Fred Roberts]

Hi Jeff- Thanks for your response.

The plug-in is Pixel Film Studios – ProPen. I’ve uninstalled it and reinstalled it and still nothing. There is an orange render line over the clips.

I just can’t even begin to troubleshoot when I can see the plug-in and FCP cannot.

[Andreas Kiel]

Hello Fred,

Kirk already mentioned my XFX tool and that’s the only way to do trouble shooting.

That a plug in shows up in the fx browser of FCPX doesn’t mean anything in your case.
Re-installing whatever doesn’t help either – its just a waste of time (in your case).

Export a XML of the project.
This XML will show you where FCPX expect to find your plugin.
If you don’t like to use my software, do a text search in the XML for the plugin in the “resources” section of the XML.
Once found look at the path shown there. It will (in your case) not fit the path of the fx shown in the fx browser of FCPX.
Fix one of those.

-Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

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[Fred Roberts]

Thank you both for your responses. While using the XFX tool I realized that the name of the plug in had been changed in the Finder. This was the problem. When I changed the name back to the original name, it was “reconnected”. Strange problem we caused ourselves.

Thanks again for the help.