Two computers, same plugin, one offline – what to do?

[Bret Williams]

Is it installed in the same place? It has to be installed exactly the same, in the same folder, sub folder, etc.

[Tangier Clarke]

Installed in the same place. Perhaps the issue is that the user accounts have different names. Being that many of the plugins at the user account level. That’s the only thing I can think of.

This is something that really annoys me. I wish all plugins were at the computer level, not user.

Tangier

[John Rofrano]

[Tangier Clarke] “This is something that really annoys me. I wish all plugins were at the computer level, not user.”

I thought Alex4D’s sound only transition was just a local Motion template. It should show up under: ~/Movies/Motion Templates/Transitions/Dissolves/Sound only/Sound only.motr Do you have the motion template on both computers?

~jr

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[Bret Williams]

But only the user purchased the license. But, it shouldn’t matter that they’re in different user folders. As long as the path is the same. Maybe a different version?

[Tangier Clarke]

Same exact version.

Tangier

[Oliver Peters]

Isn’t this a free plug-in? So, there shouldn’t be any licensing issues involved. Have you e-mailed Alex on his blog?

– Oliver

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[Bret Williams]

There’s no licensing involved. It was a broad generic comment about installing plugins, so it was a was a broad generic comment about why they’re installed in the user folder. It didn’t have any bearing on the issue at hand.

[Bret Williams]

Not sure why it wouldn’t be working m, then.

[Tangier Clarke]

Hadn’t contacted Alex.

Tangier

[Alex Gollner]

The problem is that the Finder or Final Cut sometimes adds a hidden ‘.localized’ suffix to some folder names.

One method to see where the plugins are expected to be is

1. Use the same plugin on both machines
2. Export the projects as XML files
3. Open each in a text editor and search for the name of the plugin “Sound Only”
4. Compare and contrast the path that is listed on the same line as the name of the plugin

Change the path of the plugin on machine B so it matches the machine A. Then timelines made on machine A will open OK on machine B.

On my Mac, the line of XML looks like this:

effect id=”r77″ name=”Sound only” uid=”~/Transitions.localized/Dissolves/Sound only/Sound only.motr”

If went to the Finder and look in the Motion Templates folder (in your home folder), and selected the folder that seems to be named ‘Transitions’ and use the Get Info command from the File menu, you’ll see the real name is ‘Transitions.localized’

Alex4D

PS: Thanks to Oliver for telling me about this discussion – I’m mostly on Twitter, hardly here.

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