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Inspiring
May 22, 2012
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How do you find "App installation path"

  • May 22, 2012
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According to the SDK doc page 117 on presets, you're supposed to install to "App installation path" but I can't find a reliable registry entry that indicates what it is.

Premiere Pro presets

...

[App installation path]\MediaIO\systempresets\[exporter subfolder]

...

I did find...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Media Encoder\[version]\AMECodecCache\64\en_US\AppRoot

and..

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\[version]\AMECodecCache\64\en_US\Default\AppRoot

and...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\CommonFiles\Usage\Agent

What is the correct way to detect the installation path?

What if the user has CS5 and CS6 installed?

What if the user doesn't have en_US installed as the language?

Is it really a common preset system for CS5 and CS6 as the doc suggests or do you have to put it in both PPro and AME?

thx

Rallymax

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Correct answer Zac Lam

I should put a link from page 177 to page 35 on plug-in installation.  There it gives the Premiere Pro app path you’re looking for:

Presets and editing mode XML files are loaded from the application-specific folders, not from the

common location. On Windows, the root path for Premiere Pro is in the registry at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\

Adobe Premiere Pro.exe. Then, just add the proper subdirectories.

For sequence presets:

\Settings\SequencePresets\[Your specific folder]\

Editing modes:

\Settings\Editing Modes\

Sequence preview presets:

\Settings\EncoderPresets\SequencePreview\[Your editing mode GUID]\

Encoder presets:

\MediaIO\systempresets\[Your exporter folder]\

Unfortunately there’s no Media Encoder app path given.  I’ll log a bug if you’re interested.

However, now that the AME team has added the new Preset Browser for CS6, that info on installing the presets in a separate location for each app for better performance may no longer be relevant.  Installing to the shared location here…

[User folder]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\AME\[version]\Presets\

might be fine and quite a bit easier.

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Zac LamCorrect answer
Inspiring
May 22, 2012

I should put a link from page 177 to page 35 on plug-in installation.  There it gives the Premiere Pro app path you’re looking for:

Presets and editing mode XML files are loaded from the application-specific folders, not from the

common location. On Windows, the root path for Premiere Pro is in the registry at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\

Adobe Premiere Pro.exe. Then, just add the proper subdirectories.

For sequence presets:

\Settings\SequencePresets\[Your specific folder]\

Editing modes:

\Settings\Editing Modes\

Sequence preview presets:

\Settings\EncoderPresets\SequencePreview\[Your editing mode GUID]\

Encoder presets:

\MediaIO\systempresets\[Your exporter folder]\

Unfortunately there’s no Media Encoder app path given.  I’ll log a bug if you’re interested.

However, now that the AME team has added the new Preset Browser for CS6, that info on installing the presets in a separate location for each app for better performance may no longer be relevant.  Installing to the shared location here…

[User folder]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\AME\[version]\Presets\

might be fine and quite a bit easier.

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Inspiring
May 22, 2012

That App Path Registry Key doesn't really help since you can't install, as you say, to the AME MedioIO too.

I'll use the User Key for now since I can detect CS4.0, 5.0, 5.5 & 6.0 and give options as to whether you want the plugin installed in each version you currently have installed.

please add a bug incident requesting registry keys for all the installation locations - and as noted previouly, not just for the current version - because LOTS of people use version x and x-1.

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