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Plugin/Effect Animation Presets missing in CS5?
Recently upgraded to CS5 and when applying an effect to a layer, where there were animation presets in older versions of AE, they are no longer. For example, in CS4, Fractal Noise had several “presets” displayed in a drop-down menu at the top of the Effect Controls panel (Blocks, Cinders, etc.), but it seems that in CS5, they are no longer available? This goes for third-party plugins as well, such as Particular. The presets exist on the hard drive, and can be accessed from Bridge, however this is a time-suck and can’t be easily previewed. Anyone having the same problem, or some UI setting I’m missing?
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In CS5 the default setting for the Effects Control panel is not to show presets.
Select it from the panel drop down and your’e good-to-go.
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THANK YOU!!! Seems weird that Adobe would turn this off by default, but I am happy to know that the option to turn it off is there, if needed.
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I prefer it off. I rarely, if ever, use presets so I just want the effects themselves to come up when I’m searching.
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BTW, this—like every single other change, no matter how small—is listed here:
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Boy, this was a big help. I can’t count how many times I’ve run in to this and just accepted that the presets were no longer available!
Thanks!
Eric
Eric D. Kirk
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Yup, me too, just accepted that they were gone. Really dumb of me considering that the gillion presets I have slow my startup time by 3-5 minutes and I’m always dumping presets from the ‘net into the presets folder in my sidebar.
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Well, I sure hope you read the solution in the thread. Someone posted a picture of how to fix it. Wow, I wrote that a long time ago.
Eric
Eric D. Kirk
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OK. I’m having an issue that goes beyond just checking “Show Animated Presets.” I have the option selected, but when I expand the Animated Preset drop down box there are no options. The Animated Presets are in the Effects and Preset window, but that’s not giving me what I want when I want it. Here are two images to show what I’m referring to.
Thanks.
Stephan
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Stephan, have you saved any animation presets involving this effect? If not, what do you expect to see there?
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