Using effects from other products

In addition to the dozens of effects included with Adobe Premiere Pro, many effects are available in the form of plug-ins. You can purchase plug-ins from Adobe or third-party vendors, or acquire from other compatible applications. For example, many Adobe After Effects plug-ins and VST plug-ins can be used in Adobe Premiere Pro. However, Adobe officially supports only plug-ins that are installed with the application.

Any effect is available to Adobe Premiere Pro when its plug-in file is present in the common Plug-ins folder. In Windows, install plug-ins to Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\<version>\MediaCore. In Mac OS, install plug-ins to /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/<version>/MediaCore or to /<user>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/<version>/MediaCore. Using the installer for a plug-in is the best way to make sure the plug-in and its related files are installed in the right place. Your plug-ins have a set of effects different from the plug-ins described in Adobe Premiere Pro Help if you have done one of the following:

installed additional effects,
removed files from the Plug-ins folder,
purchased Adobe Premiere Pro as part of a hardware package.

For a current list of third-party plug-ins, go to www.adobe.com/go/learn_dv_plugins.

When you open a project with references to missing effects, Adobe Premiere Pro does the following:

tells you which effects are missing,
marks the effects as offline,
performs any rendering without the effects.

Note: To edit a project containing add-on plugins on more than one computer, install the plugins on all the computers.