Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - Manual (Page 270)

264 USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS4
Effects and transitions
Last updated 11/6/2011
Using effects from other products
In addition to the dozens of effects included with 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 Premiere Pro. However, Adobe officially
supports only plug-ins that are installed with the application.
Any effect is available to 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\\MediaCore. In Mac OS, install plug-ins to
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins//MediaCore or to //Library/Application
Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins//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 Premiere Pro Help if you have done one of the following:
• installed additional effects,
• removed files from the Plug-ins folder,
• purchased 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, 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 plug-ins on more than one computer, install the plug-ins on all the computers.
More Help topics
Third-party plug-ins for Premiere Pro
About GPU-accelerated effects
Page Curl, Refraction, and Ripple (Circular) reside in the GPU Effects bin in the Effects panel. They take advantage of
the video-processing capabilities of GPU cards and of 3D shading. They are supported only on Windows systems with
GPU (graphics processing unit) cards that support Direct3D, Pixel Shader 1.3+, and Vertex Shader 1.1+.
Note: Some effect options are not available if your video adapter doesn’t have Pixel Shader 2.0 and Vertex Shader 2.0.
More Help topics
“ Page Curl effect (Windows only) ” on page 366
“ Refraction effect (Windows only) ” on page 366
“ Ripple (Circular) effect (Windows only) ” on page 366
About high bit-depth effects
Premiere Pro includes some video effects and transitions that support high bit-depth processing. When applied to high
bit-depth assets, such as v210-format video and 16-bit-per-channel Photoshop files, these effects can be rendered with
32 bit per channel pixels. The result is better color resolution and smoother color gradients with these assets than
would be possible with the earlier standard 8 bit per channel pixels. Effects that support high bit-depth processing are
designated “32-bit” in their descriptions in Premiere Pro Help.