Plug-In Manager - How to Organize from scratch

Jim H wrote on 1/22/2012, 9:26 PM
Has anyone ever seen a detailed step by step tutorial on how to use the Plug-In Manager (PIM)? I did try the forum search, but as usual the result were not what you'd expect.

Now that I've got BCC installed my normal method of clicking on the green FX button and selecting a filter takes too much scrolling.

John Rofrano and the Borris folks recommend using the PIM and offer some categories to sort the various FX. However I'm not thrilled with Sony's default folders either... why do I care if an FX is a from a third party?

So my main question is, when I look at the filters in the PIM, are these "shortcuts" to the filters or the files themselves? I'm guessing some sort of shortcut because you can find the same filter in several folders. I'd prefer to scrap the whole folder structure, create my own, and then plop each filter into the folder I believe it should be in. Maybe even using the Boris recommended folders plus a few more.

Though I don't see a way of doing what I'd like. I can't delete existing folders, I can't drag files into different folders, all that seem not grayed out is create new folder (that I can delete). Is there a way to go into Windows Explorer and find these folders and the "shortcuts" therein, and maybe just reorganize them there?

Comments

WillemT wrote on 1/23/2012, 9:41 AM
@Jim, I understand your problem. It seems to be mine as well - just from a slightly different angle.

If you, for example, have BCC installed before you install Vegas, it installs folders with a not so bad (for me at least) classification of the plugs. Yes you cannot change anything in them but I can live with that.

My problem, from here is the same as yours, I think. If I were to install Vegas first, and then BCC, things change. No folders for BCC apart from the usual FX etc. How do you get Vegas to re-evaluate any newly installed plugs and create the same classified folders? The idea is not bad, just that this seems to be a once of initial setup thing during the installation of Vegas - that seems a bit stup*d to me. I most likely will not have the current, definately not future, plugs all installed when I install Vegas.

Am I wrong? Is there a way to re-evaluate after installing new plugin fx?

Willem.
Jim H wrote on 1/23/2012, 9:58 PM
Willem, let's hope someone knows the fix. I can't believe it is designed to be so non-flexible. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?