Free plugins for Premiere Pro?

[LoopStan]

I have been searching for months on end trying to find decent plugins for Premiere Pro CS. This is the only place that is near appropriate as far as I know to post this. If you have a repository or if there is a site of working plugins that are free for Premiere Pro please share the links, thankyou.

[John T Smith]

Since PPro5 is brand new (new code to make it 64bit) that means everything has to be rewritten to work

You might ask in http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premierepro_current/sdk

[LoopStan]

So none of them will work? or are there ones that are able to work on older versions of it but still compatible with CS5? Because I found one package with like 5 effects and it worked. I just read that some after effects plugins are also compatible with premiere so i'll try that also. I'm just aiming it build up a collection of plugins since I'm an effects man.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Then you may want to break out the wallet.  Most anything worth having will cost you money.

Red Giant in particular have quite a few plug-ins that are well worth paying for.

[LoopStan]

I would break out the wallet if I had money! I got premiere pro cs5 as a gift from my uncle. Well, thanks for your replies.

[shooternz]

What do you call "decent plug-ins"?

What are you looking for in particular that you cant do with PPRO CS5?

[LoopStan]

Well, specifically I was looking for ways to motion track. I looked at Icarus and VooDoo but couldn't find any way to get the data from them back into PPCS5.  But besides that, by decent i mean not things like "change the brightness" or "fade transition" because it already has things that do those. The very little that I have found, they are all useless. I'm looking into pricing stuff for boris FX, I might save up for it even though it seems way expensive, for a indie.

[shooternz]

Why not $pring for AEFX?

Combination of PPRO and AEFX should suffice for most things Indie.

[LoopStan]

I was looking into that also. I am thinking about getting a student version since I use it for school. I guess that will have to wait though until I can get some money. What else can a 15 year old do

[shooternz]

What else can a 15 year old do

Be real nice to your uncle.

BTW: if I was your uncle..I would tell you to learn to  "walk before you learn to run"

You have heaps to learn in PPRO before you need AEFX or any plugins.

[LoopStan]

Well I've had premiere for some time now, so I got my way around I'm just looking into expanding. But yes, I will have to be extra nice to my uncle xD. Thanks for the help and information.

[Zac Lam]

Hi there,

Here are a few free plug-ins for Premiere Pro CS5:

Red Giant Quick Looks Limited - http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/downloads/quick-looks-limited/

Cartoonr  from NewBlueFX - http://www.newbluefx.com/

Sometimes  BorisFX gives away single effects as Continuum Units.  You can subscribe to their newsletter to be notified when any become available.

For  Mac only, Omino Suite - http://omino.com/pixelblog/omino-ae-plugins/ - These have only been tested with AE as far as I know.  So your mileage may  vary in PPro.

Cheers,

Zac

[LoopStan]

Wow! Thank you very much! I've started looking into the premiere pro apis for making plugins since i'm a programmer as well. Hopefully I can start to contribute to the community with plugins. Wish me luck, haha!

[the_wine_snob]

I'd start with the PrPro SDK, and also look in on that FORUM. Lot of interesting work being done out there.

Good luck,

Hunt

[Zac Lam · Accepted solution]

Hi LoopStan,

As Bill said, there is an SDK for Premiere Pro, with many different plug-in types.  But for effects plug-ins in particular, you'll see in the Premiere Pro SDK that it is recommended to use the After Effects SDK for cross-product compatibility with both Premiere Pro and After Effects.  So if it's effects plug-ins you're interested in, you can grab the AE SDK here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/aftereffects.html

And the AE SDK forum is here: http://forums.adobe.com/community/aftereffects_general_discussion/aftereffects_sdk  That forum covers using the AE SDK to build plug-ins for both AE and PPro.

Enjoy,

Zac

[the_wine_snob]

Zac,

Good point, and one that I missed.

Thanks for that comment,

Hunt

[LoopStan]

Awesome! I've got everything sorta, just having some trouble opening the samples in visual studio, i'll figure it out though. Thanks again!

[Guest]

shooternz -

Does AEFX have an English website?  All I'm getting is espanol ? This is via AEFX.COM

No bueno.

expeditionwest.com

[the_wine_snob]

For the AfterEffects English Forum, try HERE.

Good luck,

Hunt