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| Again, there is no significant change, for better or worse, about where the application is looking for plug-ins. (This is a common refrain: There is far less different about Creative Cloud than people think, as far as the desktop applications are concerned. The differences are just about how activation works.) Having the application and/or installer be smarter about where to look for extensions is a fruitful area for feature requests. Currently, I use aliases/shortcuts, so the newer version of an application follows that alias/shortcut and looks in the old location. That's nothing new; I've been doing that for years. > -----Original Message----- > From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of > Brian Maffitt > Sent: Monday, 22 April 2013 07:36 > To: After Effects Mail List > Subject: Re: [AE] When new software is available on Creative Cloud plans. > > This is a welcome development. How will it work with plugins? Will the legacy > versions of AE or Premiere know to look in the new plugin folder (if there is > one) so we don't have to do the "reinstall-everything-boogie" whenever a > new version comes out (or an old version is reinstalled for compatibility)? > > Just curious. > > Brian > > > There is no change in this regard. The software does not automatically > "update" to the newest version. You can choose if/when to download and > install the newer versions. You can have multiple versions installed on your > computer at once. Everything is the same as before. The only significant thing > that is different is that you would be paying a subscription fee rather than a > one-time license fee, and the activation system checks periodically to make > sure that the subscription is current. > > > > Actually, one additional improvement in this area: You will have access to all > versions that have been released during your subscription, going back at > least five versions, as far as CS6; so---for example---when you're using (say, > hypothetically) After Effects 15.0 years from now, you'll still be able to grab > After Effects 11.0 (CS6) as part of your subscription, should you need to use it > to do something with an old project or for a customer who still hasn't > upgraded. |
