Install Guide

Your licence key is in your order confirmation email, and in My Account on plugdealer.shop.

Windows

1. Close After Effects and Premiere Pro if they’re open.
2. Get the free ZXP Installer from aescripts.com/learn/zxp-installer. Unzip your download and drag the .zxp file into ZXP Installer.
3. Open After Effects or Premiere Pro (whichever your plugin is for), go to Window → Extensions and choose your plugin.
4. Paste your licence key and click Activate. The other plugins in your purchase unlock themselves.
5. NIGHTVIS, CRT KIT, HOLO FX (After Effects): a One-time setup window offers to install the effects the looks need. Click Install, then Yes when Windows asks about Windows PowerShell (verified publisher: Microsoft Windows). Then restart After Effects.

Mac

1. Close After Effects and Premiere Pro if they’re open.
2. Get the free ZXP Installer from aescripts.com/learn/zxp-installer. Unzip your download and drag the .zxp file into ZXP Installer.
3. Open After Effects or Premiere Pro (whichever your plugin is for), go to Window → Extensions and choose your plugin.
4. Paste your licence key and click Activate. The other plugins in your purchase unlock themselves.
5. NIGHTVIS, CRT KIT, HOLO FX (After Effects): a One-time setup window offers to install the effects the looks need. Click Install and enter your Mac password. Then restart After Effects.

Plug Tracker needs a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer).

FilmForge

FilmForge is an effect rather than a panel, so it installs differently. It works in both After Effects and Premiere Pro: close both first.

Windows

Open Windows PowerShell, paste this line and press Enter, then click Yes:

irm https://plugdealer.shop/wp-json/plugdealer/v1/install?item=filmforge | iex

Or copy FilmForge.aex from your download into C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore\ by hand.

Mac

In Finder press Cmd+Shift+G, go to /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore/ and drag FilmForge.plugin in (enter your Mac password). If macOS blocks it: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

Then

Find it under Effects → Video Effects → Stylize → FilmForge in Premiere Pro, or Effect → Stylize → FilmForge in After Effects. Already activated another PlugDealer plugin on this computer? FilmForge unlocks by itself. Otherwise open License Info → Licence… at the bottom of its controls and paste your key.

If something’s not right

• It asks for an administrator’s password: adding effects needs an administrator account on the computer.
• You clicked “Not now”, or a look says it needs PlugDealer’s effects engine: close the panel, open it again from Window → Extensions in After Effects, click Install, then restart After Effects.
• The plugin isn’t under Window → Extensions: fully restart After Effects or Premiere Pro, and check ZXP Installer said it installed.
• “This key is already in use on 3 computers”: on a computer you no longer use, open the plugin’s licence settings and choose Free up this seat.
• Overlay packs are video files: unzip them anywhere and import them like any footage.
• Still stuck? Email info@plugdealer.shop with a screenshot.