hello my name is James - and welcome to my master class on it installing things
in After Effects today we're going to be looking at four ways to install
different things including plugins script UI panels CEP panels and presets
on windows and macintosh the time codes for each one is down below okay first up
we are going to show how to install a plugin on windows the first step is to
find your After Effects location on Windows that will be C Program Files
Adobe and here we have all the cracked versions of Adobe products that we have
I'm going to install it in 2019 then we come into support files under plugins
you may see some folders that already exist in here that's fine we don't need
to install it in those folders we can put it anywhere or if we want to be
organized we can put it in a folder now the folders don't matter what they're
called the only thing that matters is that your plugin is in here it doesn't
matter what you call it - I call it crack plug-in ATX but that's not what
its name will appear inside After Effects you can call it anything you
want one other thing I'd like to mention is that your plugin is compatible with
After Effects and Premiere then you can come to this location see Program Files
Adobe common plugins and then your version media core and then if you drag
the plug-in which I don't have anymore into there it will then be loaded by
both hosts Premiere and After Effects and you're good to go on Macintosh
things are a bit different we come to applications and then we can see all our
versions of After Effects there and then we go into plugins and the same applies
the Macintosh media core is in under library application support Adobe common
plugins version number and then media core and then
can place your plug in here and it will be loaded by premiere and after-effects
now I'll be installing it's the XP extension on Windows you have two
options here you can either use the zxp installer or the a scripts zxp installer
but not both so what we do is we drag these the XP there we get this animation
here tells us it's installing and then we have to wait patiently
okay extension has been installed we need to restart our Adobe application
and now your zxp will be available under windows extensions but if something went
wrong and you need to do a manual installation we can do that as well so
in Explorer we come to see Program Files times 86
oops common files adobe CPX Dench's and we can see all the extensions that we
have here so we can see that file hunter is installed under this folder here you
can go in there and something went wrong maybe maybe not all the files are there
but yeah okay installing a CP panel on Mac it's pretty much the exact same
process we grab the file drag it into the zxp installer now it's told us that
our extension has been installed we can restart after effects and file hunter
will be installed if you would like to do a manual installation you can come to
the location here which is library application support Adobe CEP extensions
and this is actually where these DXP installer has placed our file hunter so
if the installation goes wrong were you missing some files you can do a manual
installation if that suits you now we'll talk about installing script
UI panels on Windows the location is C Program Files Adobe
your version support files and then scripts
however these scripts 1if here under file scripts and you can run any script
follow prompt you to browse for your file or you can select the ones here
which have been loose objects just crashed which idea the other place you'd
probably like to install them his under scripts script UI panels and these ones
are dock water you can then move around and place whatever you like and they'll
be available under window I would show you an After Effects but it's gone so
okay after fixes recovered we've got them under window and here are all these
script UI panels as mentioned they come in a little dot more form that you can
then move around or make full screen anyway that's how to use script UI
Palace and now a look at how to install a script panel on Mac these are inferior
to plugins but nonetheless we will show you how to install them so we want to
come to applications Adobe After Effects version and then scripts you can see we
have some scripts here and these ones are available in file scripts and we can
see them there however if we want a float out panel like this season Wiz
here we don't want to install it there we want to install it under script UI
panels and then that's where even Wiz is then to see that we come up to window
and here all our script UI panels yet and we come to whichever one we want and
then it's gonna be in a little dot will panel the week and I move anywhere we
like and Matt is ruined my recording by typing but that's okay so that is how to
install a script on Mac now we're going to be talking about how to use presets
presets Presets so come to documents adobe your
version user presets and we can see we have the dot FFX presets here we have
deep glow from years back when it was a preset and if we come into After Effects
here those will pop up under effects and presets and the cool thing about this is
you don't need to restart After Effects you can just right click refresh that
and then we type in deep glow and there we have it make sure that you don't make
any spelling mistakes if we went low we're not gonna see it appear there so
yeah easy mistake to make now we'll be talking about installing presets on
Macintosh I mean uses myself documents adobe then
we come to the version that we want and then there's user presets as you can see
these are dot FFX and if we'd want to access them we can come into effects and
presets and then type in the one we want the great thing about presets is that
you don't need to restart After Effects you can simply refresh the list that
can't be said for plugins