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jrwing
Inspiring
Nov 11, 2026 9:00 PM UTC
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Whitelist audio plugins for scanning

I’m a music producer & sound designer with a lot of audio plugins and virtual instruments for use in my DAW. However I use Premiere for video work, and every time I update it insists on scanning all these plugins I would never use in video, and it often takes hours:

My folder includes numerous synths, drum machines, samplers (Kontakt etc) that don’t even have a use case within an NLE, so it’s such an annoying waste of time when I run an update.

I tried duplicating only the small amount of plugins I would want to use in Premiere and pointing to this folder, but it was problematic in that the plugins wouldn’t load or work anymore being outside of my system VST & AU folders. So I’m not sure what the solution is, but I was thinking a whitelist file where you could add the plugins you want to scan, and it will therefore ignore anything not in the list and ideally would scan much faster. Or a blacklist / blocklist which is the opposite, to ignore everything in that list. Whatever works. Thank you!

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    Inspiring
    Nov 11, 2026 9:37 PM UTC

    There is an Audioplugin manager inside Premiere where you can disable the plugins you don’t want it to scan and use. You can access it at the bottom of the Audio preferences or in the Audio Track Mixer menu.

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