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Q: Plugin Effects not showing up in FCPX

Hi,

 

I recently bought a new computer.  I installed FCPX and copied my plugin effects to the movie folder (motion templates, etc.) the same way I had them working in my old computer, but the effects are not showing up in FCPX when I launch the Application.  I read somewhere that it might be a permission issue so I ran disk utility but it didn't make a difference.  Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Marc

imac, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jun 30, 2012 7:54 AM

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  • by innocentius,Helpful

    innocentius innocentius Jun 30, 2012 9:13 AM in response to mm2270
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    Jun 30, 2012 9:13 AM in response to mm2270

    Are you talking about third party plugins ? FCPX plugins should be downloaded with you install of FCX. Trash you copy of fCPX and download again.

  • by mm2270,

    mm2270 mm2270 Jun 30, 2012 10:18 AM in response to innocentius
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    Jun 30, 2012 10:18 AM in response to innocentius

    yes, third party plugins.  thanks!

  • by mm2270,

    mm2270 mm2270 Jul 1, 2012 11:17 AM in response to mm2270
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    Jul 1, 2012 11:17 AM in response to mm2270

    Anyone?  third party plugins not showing up in FCPX?  any ideas? working on the macbook pro retina...installed these same plugins on my old IMac no problem.  thanks.

  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Jul 2, 2012 5:34 AM in response to mm2270
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    Jul 2, 2012 5:34 AM in response to mm2270

    "Plugins" can be installed in more than one place. The most accessible is ~/Movies/Motion Templates/Effects

    (and correspondingly for Titles, Transitions, Generators).

     

    Usually these can just be dragged with the Finder to the right place. Is that what you've been doing?

     

    There are also some that use installers and are placed in somewhere like

    /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro (I am not exactly sure of this location).

     

    Maybe you had some plugins that got installed this way and that is why you are not getting them.

  • by williampriceiii,

    williampriceiii williampriceiii Feb 6, 2014 8:48 PM in response to mm2270
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    Feb 6, 2014 8:48 PM in response to mm2270

    I'm having the exact same problem. I have 10.1.1 on both my iMac and new Macbook Pro Retina. Plugins are in the same place on both machines. Work on the iMac, do not work on the Macbook.

  • by Andy Holt,

    Andy Holt Andy Holt May 3, 2014 6:16 PM in response to mm2270
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    May 3, 2014 6:16 PM in response to mm2270

    I just ran into the same issue today. All you have to do is make sure that the plug-ins are installed in the correct 'Movies/Motion Templates/Effects' location. I installed four different plug-ins into FCPX on my new MacPro and only one was showing up in the effects pane. I checked the location using a spotlight search and they were installed in 'Movies/Motion Templates/Effects' but when I searched for the plug-in that was working it was in a different 'Movies/Motion Templates/Effects' location all by itself.

     

    It appears that there are two different 'Movies/Motion Templates/Effects' locations, you need to make sure that you install them into the one that resides in your home/user folder and not the other location. You can easily drag and drop to copy them over. This worked for me, and the plug-ins are working on all my Macs.

     

    Hope this fixes your issue.

  • by highwaychic49,

    highwaychic49 highwaychic49 Aug 7, 2014 3:55 PM in response to Andy Holt
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    Aug 7, 2014 3:55 PM in response to Andy Holt

    I know this is an old thread but I had the same issue. Found this on Apple's Motion help document. This was very helpful:

     

    • .moef is the Final Cut Effect template extension.
    • .motn is the Final Cut Generator template extension.
    • .moti is the Final Cut Title template extension.
    • .motr is the Final Cut Transition template extension.


    Just be sure your templates are in the right folder. I had downloaded a template that I thought was a title but ended in .motn, which meant it was supposed to be in the /Movies/Motion Templates/Generators/ folder. Good luck!

  • by fox_m,Helpful

    fox_m fox_m Aug 7, 2014 6:08 PM in response to highwaychic49
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    Aug 7, 2014 6:08 PM in response to highwaychic49

    There is a further requirement that the Motion Templates folder and the Effects, Generators, Titles and Transitions folders must have the file extension '.localized'. Do not add this extension directly to the Finder folder — right-click on each folder and select Get Info (or select the folder and type command-i) and in the Name & Extension textbox, make sure the folder name is, e.g., Effects.localized.

  • by GuttGal,

    GuttGal GuttGal Dec 29, 2014 6:34 PM in response to fox_m
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    Dec 29, 2014 6:34 PM in response to fox_m

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!

  • by Richard Muller,

    Richard Muller Richard Muller Dec 31, 2014 3:09 PM in response to fox_m
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    Dec 31, 2014 3:09 PM in response to fox_m

    Likewise, many many thanks!  i was tearing what was left of my hair out.  WHY is this not documented somewhere?

  • by fox_m,

    fox_m fox_m Jan 1, 2015 10:51 AM in response to Richard Muller
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    Jan 1, 2015 10:51 AM in response to Richard Muller

    It wasn't always so. The change might be OS related (security), not specifically FCPX related. But that's just a guess.

  • by basicallydan,

    basicallydan basicallydan Oct 5, 2015 4:25 AM in response to fox_m
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    Oct 5, 2015 4:25 AM in response to fox_m

    @fox_m Amazing thank you! That one thing there solved my problem completely. You, sir or madam, are a legend.

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Oct 5, 2015 6:15 AM in response to fox_m
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    Oct 5, 2015 6:15 AM in response to fox_m

    fox_m wrote:

     

    It wasn't always so. The change might be OS related (security), not specifically FCPX related. But that's just a guess.

     

    Not 100% sure but I believe my custom template folders (without the localized extension) made the trip successfully from 10.9 to 10.10. But they did not in the 10.11 upgrade.

     

    Russ

  • by fox_m,

    fox_m fox_m Oct 5, 2015 10:31 AM in response to Russ H
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    Oct 5, 2015 10:31 AM in response to Russ H

    I notice that ALL the basic FCPX categories (below the Effects, Generators, etc. folders) that accompany the basic install of FCPX also all have the .localized extension in 10.11. There's probably another change a-coming. They only show up in the Users collection if you Open a Copy in Motion for at least one template in any given category.  If you created a duplicate named version of the category folder to install a "3rd party" effect, that might cause a problem in 10.11  (also— not 100% sure about that either.) Did your templates reappear in FCPX after localizing their category level folders?

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