New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

[Valion]

Brad, do you have any versions of Adobe stuff other than CS4 installed? When you run the installer, what directory does it say it installed the plugin to?

Also, I think I was wrong about being able to recreate the problem. I was just loading AE to check if I saw "Avisynth file (*.avs)" in the list of importable file types, but AE calls it the name of the file, so it was just further down the list under "Premiere CS AVS Importer (*.avs)". In any case, I can't figure out a way to make it fail now.

[Brad]

It's installing into Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS4\MediaCore

And no, I only have CS4 installed.

When the installer comes up, it doesn't ask anything about where the actual plug-in should go. The only location field I'm seeing is for the Program Files\Premiere CS AVS Importer. Either way I double-checked to see if the actual plug-in was present and it is indeed.

I also just tried copying the plug-in to both Premiere and AE's separate plug-in folders and no luck :\

[Valion]

Here's a couple more things to try...

After adding any plugins, hold down shift while loading Premiere. It will force it to clear the plugin cache and load everything from scratch.

http://valion.net/csavs/Development/CSAVSRC1Debug.prm is a debug version which should throw up 4 message boxes when the plugin is initially loaded. One for imInit, one for imGetSupports8, and 2 for imGetIndFormat. Put it in Mediacore and load Premiere like normal. If no message boxes come up, Premiere isn't even trying to load the plugin for some reason.

http://valion.net/csavs/Development/ImporterSDK.prm is the basic importer from Adobe's sample code. Throw it in Mediacore, load Premiere, and see if the option to import .sdk files shows up under the import menu. It should show up as 'SDK Importer Format'. If that doesn't load, then it seems like something is preventing any importers from being loaded.

[Brad]

Neither plug-in does anything. I know I'm copying to the right folder, unless for some reason they should be in their own sub-folder in MediaCore. I have the Trapcode plug-ins installed in MediaCore and they load just fine.. I'm at a loss. :\

[Valion]

Nah, you shouldn't need to make subfolders.

Take a look at C:\Documents and Settings\<yourusername>\Application Data\Adobe\Premiere Pro\4.0\Plugin Loading.log

The Mediacore ones should be at the end of the file. Check to see if it says something like 'The library could not be loaded.'

What OS/processor, btw?

[Brad]

Loading E:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS4\MediaCore\ImporterSDK.prm
There was an error loading E:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS4\MediaCore\ImporterSDK.prm from the plugin cache
The registry key will be deleted and the plugin will be loaded from disk.
Loading from disk...
The library could not be loaded.

Loading E:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS4\MediaCore\Premiere CS AVS Importer.prm
There was an error loading E:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS4\MediaCore\Premiere CS AVS Importer.prm from the plugin cache
The registry key will be deleted and the plugin will be loaded from disk.
Loading from disk...
The library could not be loaded.

Is there any dependency on the drive letter? Because my boot drive letter is E:

[Pwolf]

E? why did you do that? O.o

[Zarxrax]

I have my boot drive letter (and program files) set up as D, and it worked for me, at least in after effects.

[Zarxrax]

Someone on doom9 has reported that CS3 crashes with this plugin: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=144371

[Valion]

Drive letter shouldn't matter. The directory that the plugin gets copied to by the installer is determined by an entry in the registry set by Adobe. I need to add something to explicitly tell people to copy the file to other plugin directories if they have multiple installations.

"The library could not be loaded" is the same error I get if I just make a file full of garbage and stick a .prm extension on it, so it's like it has some fundamental problem with even accessing the file.

I'm going to try loading a copy of CS4 on a third computer (regular XP) and see if I have any luck.