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How do you find "App installation path"

May 21, 2012 10:54 PM

Tags: #plug-in_installation

 

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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    May 22, 2012 9:21 AM   in reply to Rallymax-forum

    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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