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I have listed a free lite version of my Premiere Pro plugin on the Adobe Exchange marketplace. I also sell the regular version of the plugin directly to customers (it contains all functionality of the lite one but has more options). Since I want customers to not have to re-do their projects when purchasing a license, the lite and regular versions of the plugins share the same match name.
The installer of the regular version of the plugin removes any installed version it finds first (lite and regular). So when customers use the installer all is fine. But if they copy in the regular plugin file by hand, or when Creative Cloud helpfully restores/upgrades the lite plugins that have just been removed, both plugins are active. Which one is used seems to be solely determined by file path order under the MediaCore folder (alphabetical sorting order). I want to change this, since it's unreliable to keep straight.
I added code to the plugin's setup to see if both versions are installed, and if so, disable/fail the lite version at runtime, hoping it won't get called again anymore. But here I run into difficulties. Some extra context: my plugins support both software and gpu rendering, and use the AE SDK. What I've tried so far is (with the lite version appearing first in the file hierarchy):
Are there any options that do work 100%?
> Are there any options that do work 100%?
No, not for runtime plug-in selection.
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> Are there any options that do work 100%?
No, not for runtime plug-in selection.
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Yes. I use a couple other smaller plugins and only had a problem with Kimbo and AXO Tools. Kimbo occasionally had the issue on the last version but at some point would always save. Now with the new 2023 version, it won;t save at all. The pliugin works perfect though.
AXO has the issue on a rare occasion, but ends up saving it after a couple attempts.