[Ken Sonvico]

FIXED the “ignore plugin” problem. Got the Dfx plugis to load.
How it was done:

I went into the library/preferences pane under my user account and located with the “text wrangler” utility changed all of the ignore strings from 1 to 0s in the ignore string of all: com.Adobe.SelfLink1.10.0.plist (12 sets of them).

I also took Tim’s advice and put the Tiffen Dfx folder back into the common/media core folder in the Adobe library.

However, I also left the Dfx folder in the plugins directory where Tiffen told me to put it. On launch of Premiere Pro CS5 it doesn’t report duplicates so it’s only seeing one of them.

I’m just happy to have things working.

Thanks Tim for your assistance.

Regards – Jason

[Ken Sonvico]

Hey Tim,
I placed them in the media core folder at first, as is my normal protocol, but when that didn’t work, I found a the help file on Tiffen’s site that instructed me to move the file locally into the Premiere Pro plugins folder in the Premiere Pro package contents.

• Navigate to /Applications/Adobe Premiere Pro CS3/4/5.
• Right-click (Ctrl-click if you don’t have a right mouse button) on the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3/4/5 file and select Show Package Contents.
• When the window pops-up, go to /Contents/Plug-ins/en_US.
• Drag the Tiffen Dfx v2.0 folder that you installed to your Desktop into the /Contents/Plug-ins/en_US folder.

[Ken Sonvico]

Tiffen support (thank you) pointed me to a link on the Adobe forum that has a tutorial to correct this “ignore plugin” anomaly in the Windows registry.
It involves hacking the registry and changing the value in the “ignore” string to a 0 from a 1, which I’m very comfortable in doing.
However, I’m on a Mac and I don’t see the equivalent string in the library/preferences pane on a Mac.
Is there someplace else to look?
Where is the “registry” on a Mac?

Thanks again in advance.

[Ken Sonvico]

Hey Tim,
Thanks for getting back to me. I much appreciate it.
If I understand your question correctly, then the answer is no.
I’m the only user on this machine and there’s only my admin account.

Thanks again for taking the time to reply.

[Ken Sonvico]

I got rid of the preferences file, but that didn’t correct the problem.
In fact, on relaunching PPCS4, I discovered that I could not select a file format.
I was only allowed to move around in the AVC format.
Premiere Pro is useless on my Windows 7 box and I now discover that the cursor in After Effects is whacked too.
So I uninstalled everything, rolled back my Nvidia video driver, reinstalled, relaunched, only to find that PPCS4 is still whacked. I can not move any file on the timeline without all of the windows on the PP gui shifting and covering up the timeline.
Now to make things interesting, I have PPCS4 running at home on a similar quadcore PC with Win t and it works fine.
Go figure.

[Ken Sonvico]

Hey Wade,
Thanks for the response.
I’ve reinstalled Premiere Pro CS4 and even tried going back to CS 3. Same problem.
I haven’t tried deleting the preferences file yet. Should have thought of that though, I’ve done that in the past with Final Cut Pro.
Thanks, will try that.