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Mark:

I feel your pain. This has driven me nuts over the years, too and certainly w=
eighs heavily when I am purchasing or upgrading filter sets. Some companies l=
ike GenArts figured it out a long time ago, always offering comparability wh=
ether looking forward or looking backward. I wish all filters were created w=
ith this in mind.

Jack Tunnicliffe
Javapost Production

Sent from my iPhone

On 2013-06-06, at 1:23 PM, Mark Walczak <mdwalczak@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
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> My company recently upgraded to CS6 from CS5, and we took the opportunity t=
o upgrade many of our plugins as well.  Tiffen was part of this transition, a=
nd we went from v2.0.2.1 to 3.0.9.6.=20
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> Every time that we go to open a CS5 project that was created using v2 Tiff=
en effects, AE reports that the project contains several links to effects th=
at don't exist.  In reality, the effects are installed perfectly fine on our=
 boxes.  It simply seems that Tiffen didn't implement any way for v3 effects=
 to naturally inherit settings/keyframes from v2.
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> I just opened a trouble ticket with Tiffen, but the broader question I wan=
ted to ask pertains to upgrading plugins in general. =20
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> Is there any sort of script/tool that can batch apply old plugin settings t=
o new effects with the same name/attributes?  Unfortunately, you can't even c=
opy/paste between the two versions :-(
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> Thank you so much for your help!
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> --=20
> Mark Walczak
> -------------------
> Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/mdwalczak
> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mdwalczak=20

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<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Mark:</div><div><br></div><div>I feel your pain. This has driven me nuts over the years, too and certainly weighs heavily when I am purchasing or upgrading filter sets. Some companies like GenArts figured it out a long time ago, always offering comparability whether looking forward or looking backward. I wish all filters were created with this in mind.<br><br><div>Jack Tunnicliffe</div><div>Javapost Production</div><div><br></div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 2013-06-06, at 1:23 PM, Mark Walczak &lt;<a href="mailto:mdwalczak@gmail.com">mdwalczak@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi everyone,<br><br>My company recently upgraded to CS6 from CS5, and we took the opportunity to upgrade many of our plugins as well.&nbsp; Tiffen was part of this transition, and we went from v2.0.2.1 to 3.0.9.6. <br>
<br></div>Every time that we go to open a CS5 project that was created using v2 Tiffen effects, AE reports that the project contains several links to effects that don't exist.&nbsp; In reality, the effects are installed perfectly fine on our boxes.&nbsp; It simply seems that Tiffen didn't implement any way for v3 effects to naturally inherit settings/keyframes from v2.<br>
<br>I just opened a trouble ticket with Tiffen, but the broader question I wanted to ask pertains to upgrading plugins in general.&nbsp; <br></div><br></div>Is there any sort of script/tool that can batch apply old plugin settings to new effects with the same name/attributes?&nbsp; Unfortunately, you can't even copy/paste between the two versions :-(<br>
<br></div>Thank you so much for your help!<br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><font color="#888888">Mark Walczak<br>-------------------<br>Vimeo: <a href="http://vimeo.com/mdwalczak" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/mdwalczak</a><br>
LinkedIn: <a href="http://goog_598840369" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/</a><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/mdwalczak" target="_blank">mdwalczak</a></font>
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