How to install Adobe After EFfects Plugins on Your Computer (Windows Vista)

Actually, installing Adobe After Effects Plugin is very easy. But for beginners, it can be very confusing and could spend a lot of time to complete the installation, especially for plugins that are not accompanied by the installer. There have been a lot of questions already about how to install Adobe After Effects plugins in windows, especially for plugins that do not have an installer and require the users to manually integrate the plugins on their system.

So, installing the plugins is very easy. Just drag and drop the plugins into the specific folder. Where is it? Here is the answer. For more details, you can see the screenshot below. For this example, we will install the plugins on Windows Vista.

Instructions

Drop your plug-ins into the MediaCore folder. This folder allows you to use plug-ins in Premiere Pro also, if the plug-ins happen to be used in both hosts.Vista(C:)\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS3\MediaCore



For further troubleshoot about installing Adobe After Effects Plugins in Windows Vista, visit this Adobe Tech Note on Troubleshoot installation problems After Effects CS3 (Windows Vista).