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RGPatt
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September 11, 2017
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Debugging Media Core Importer

  • September 11, 2017
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Can I debug a Media Core importer plug-in in After Effects?  I am using Xcode 8.3 on OS 10.12.6.  If I attach the debugger to After Effects none of the breakpoints seem to work.  What am I supposed do do?  The Premiere SDK documentation makes a reference to setting a custom executable, but I can't find where I do that in Xcode and Xcode Help doesn't seem to know what a custom executable is.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Correct answer Zac Lam

Hi RGPatt,

Yes you can debug it.  With the importer project selected as the Active Scheme, choose Edit Scheme.  In the Run settings, in Executable, choose Adobe After Effects CC 2017.app.

Hope that helps,

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Zac LamCorrect answer
Inspiring
September 12, 2017

Hi RGPatt,

Yes you can debug it.  With the importer project selected as the Active Scheme, choose Edit Scheme.  In the Run settings, in Executable, choose Adobe After Effects CC 2017.app.

Hope that helps,

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RGPattAuthor
Inspiring
September 12, 2017

I did that and none of my breakpoints work.  I am in the process of trying to get help from Apple, but if you can suggest anything else maybe it will spare me cashing in my tech support incident.

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Zac Lam
Inspiring
September 12, 2017

The other piece, which you may have already done as well, is to make sure you build the plug-in into the plug-ins folder.  I just confirmed it works on macOS 10.12.6 with Xcode 7.3.1 in Premiere Pro CC 2017.1.

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