No Plugins show up in FCPX-What's happening?

Well usually if the folders are created manually-as it seems to be the case-it is because the folder structure was not precisely created. What I say for effects applies also for the other templates.

(home)/Movies/Motion Templates/Effects/(category)/(some effect)

(home) is your home folder

(category) is a name of your choosing. It will appear in FCP X next to other existing categories like Blurs or Keying.

(some effect) is the folder containing the effect

Both the Motion Templates folder and the Effects folder need to be “localized” - failure to do so is one of the most common reasons why effects don’t show.

Category folders and the folders of each effect should NOT be localized.

One other common mistake is the omission of the category folder. Yet another is to only copy the .moef file instead of the whole folder for each effect.

To localize a folder, select it in the Finder press command-I to open the Get Info window and there add the .localized extension to the folder name.

Are you sure it’s an FCP plugin? This seems like an Adobe site.

If you have Motion, the plugins go into Movies/Motion Templates and whatever group you’re working with, Effects, Title ms, Generators. Inside that folder there needs to be a category. It can be an existing category or a new custom category. The plugin folder with three or four files goes inside there. I’m basing that in the common procedure for plugins, but I don’t know the specifics of what you have.

In any case the instructions you were giving were incorrect or inadequately incomplete.

In your Movies folder is a Motion Templates folder. Effects are commonly placed in there, but it depends on the specifics of the plugin. Some install in system locations.

"Do you have to localize Luis If Motion is installed?"

Tom, I had to go and test this.

I bought FCP X in 2011 the very day it came out, and I bought Motion about a week later. I have had these folders for a long time.

I just tried "unlocalizing" the Motion Templates folder, to see what would happen. I expected one of two outcomes: either it would work just the same, or the custom templates might be missing.

Here is what happened instead: when I started Final Cut Pro, I got this dialog:

I clicked Ok, and then I quit and restarted Final Cut Pro.

All the templates were still there.

THEN I realized that Final Cut Pro had created a new Motion Templates.localized folder and copied everything over.

I actually now have one unlocalized and one localized folder.

Given this, I think it is still best to stay with the traditional advice and localize.

Do you have Motion or don’t you?

Where did these instructions come from?

For what plugins?

Never, ever, under any circumstances place anything inside the application bundle.

Do you have to localize Luis If Motion is installed?

Thanks Luis.