Comments on: What CustomEffects are

By: Jerzy Drozda Jr

Jerzy Drozda Jr — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:37:29 +0000

I know. This is a Adobe AIR security issue. The answer to this is already in the comments. You can’t drag it, but you can double click it once the app is opened in the Admin mode.

By: Takasaurus

Takasaurus — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:52:22 +0000

Hello

I’m on an iMac Intel running OS X 10.5.8. I am running After Effects CS4. I have installed the ceinstaller and have attempted to load a couple of presets including Time Shuffle and Eran Stern’s Marker Leaks. Both times I get to the end and hit install… I select my After Effects CS4 folder and hit return. I then get a message which says “Installation failed! Check if your After Effects Installation directory is selected correctly and try again.”

I have attempted a few times and always get the same result. I made sure to change the READ WRITE settings in the xml files as per your instructions. I am following everything else to a T.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

TAK

By: jorge

jorge — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:45:45 +0000

HI, im using windows 7 when i want to install the preset with the ceInstaller, I select the directoy and nothing happens. also when I right-clicked ceInstaller and ran it in Admin mode, I couldn’t even drop the *polyCE file into ceInstaller’s drop zone box.

By: Jerzy Drozda Jr

Jerzy Drozda Jr — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:46:27 +0000

Thanks for the feedback.

By: Jerron Smith

Jerron Smith — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:01:53 +0000

I am running a Mac Book Pro with the snow leopard operating system.
The install ran very smoothly and the effects I downloaded seem to be working very well in AE CS4.
Excellent work, thank you very much.

By: B. Austin

B. Austin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:16:24 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, but yes I restarted AE. More than once I think. Who knows? Maybe I goofed up something very simple.

Maybe this will help others… I also had a problem with ceInstaller sending me back to the “Select your After Effects folder” dialog box. I tried SO MANY things. Then uninstalling AIR and reinstalling the newest version finally solved the problem.

Interesting result on my Vista machine… When I right-clicked ceInstaller and ran it in Admin mode, I couldn’t even drop the *polyCE file into ceInstaller’s drop zone box. But when I ran ceInstaller in non-Admin mode, it actually worked BETTER. Vista is crazy : )

By: Jerzy Drozda Jr

Jerzy Drozda Jr — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:53:25 +0000

That is oddly strange. If the XML was added and the FFX file ended in the Presets\PolygonStudio directory everything should be fine. Theres not much more to the installation process. It just puts the file in the directory and adds something to the XML (and even that step could be skipped). I guess you’ve tried restarting AE?

By: B. Austin

B. Austin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:17:01 +0000

Hi! Am running XP at work and the installer worked perfectly with awesome-looking results onscreen! At home running Vista and AE CS4 version 9.0.0.346, things didn’t go so well. After trying every other fix that people mentioned above, I uninstalled Adobe AIR and reinstalled the latest version. It finally LOOKED like the installation went okay. Your XML has been added to the PresetEffects.xml file. and your preset has been added to Presets\PolygonStudio\. Still, AE doesn’t seem to know the preset is available. I suppose other people had the same problem. If you have any suggestions, please let us know. Thanks!

By: John-M

John-M — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:52:33 +0000

Many thanks for sharing your brain power with us mortals,
JM

By: Shola

Shola — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:26:26 +0000

Hi jerzy! i kow you must be tired of explaning over and over again how to install the ce sampler but i really need your help on this, so pls help………………..(by the way, judging from what i’ve seen with this cool presets, “you rock”)

I keep getting this message 5 invalid procedure call or argument “how do i fix this” pls help. It’s driving me nuts that other can use this presets but i can’t.