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Hi Mark,
the plugin SDK contains clear instructions for plugin developers what you need to do to ensure backwards compatibility of your plugins. Essentially reordering parameters and adding new ones is no problem, but as soon as you decide to exchange some controls by different ones, you loose the backwards compatibility (as there is obviously no way for AE to know how to turn the values from the old control into the new ones). As scripting has the limitations mentioned by David, there won't be a fully automated solution in general. Cheers, Mathias --
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dr. mathias möhl Am 07.06.2013 00:00, schrieb After Effects Mail List: From: Mark Walczak <mdwalczak@gmail.com> --001a11c1c5568293e604de81401d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi everyone, My company recently upgraded to CS6 from CS5, and we took the opportunity to upgrade many of our plugins as well. Tiffen was part of this transition, and we went from v2.0.2.1 to 3.0.9.6. 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. 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. I just opened a trouble ticket with Tiffen, but the broader question I wanted to ask pertains to upgrading plugins in general. Is there any sort of script/tool that can batch apply old plugin settings to new effects with the same name/attributes? Unfortunately, you can't even copy/paste between the two versions :-( Thank you so much for your help! |
