Importing Video Effect Presets

[RJ Johnston]

After downloading the Snapshot effect presets from Muvipix, I tried to import them into Premiere Elements 10 but was reminded that the feature for importing video effect presets had been removed.

After awhile I decided to copy the preset files, the ones with the .prepset file extension, into this folder: %program files%\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements 10\Plug-ins\en_US\Effect Presets

After starting a project in Premiere Elements, I looked in "Presets" and found the Snapshot presets listed after the PiP presets and before the Solarizes presets. They were not listed in "My Presets."

You can do the same thing in Premiere Elements 9, and probably 8.

If you add presets that you created yourself in earlier versions of Premiere Elements, look under "My Presets" if you don't see them under "Presets."

[Steve Grisetti]

Now THAT'S a great discovery! Thanks again, Robert!

[Gerlinde]

Thanks for the tip RJ, it worked without a problem.

[Dave McElderry]

RJ does it again!

[Chuck Engels]

Excellent RJ, thanks for the great help with that

[Gerlinde]

Chuck, in your tutorial, you import the presets via a right click in the Effects panel.
Do I understand this right, that this only makes the Presets available for this project? Whereas Robert's tip will be a permanent solution and making the Effects usable in any project.

[Gerlinde]

RJ wrote:

I tried to import them into Premiere Elements 10 but was reminded that the feature for importing video effect presets had been removed.

There is another workaround besides the one you posted Robert. If you follow Chuck's tutorial on the SnapShot Presets and have the Effects available in your current project, or if you have created a preset yourself, you can save it like explained in the Help Files:

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Now it will be available in any project under My Presets. You can even save the individual parts of the effect as one Effect.

[RJ Johnston]

Yes, I know you can create presets. I was just concerned about importing ones, such as one you might download from Muvipix.

[Gerlinde]

I was just concerned about importing ones, such as one you might download from Muvipix.

But you can import downloaded preset, the way Chuck demonstrates in the tutorial. It's not as strait forward anymore, now you have to save those presets the same way you would save your own to have them available in other projects.

[RJ Johnston]

You can not import presets, the way Chuck demonstrates in an earlier version of Premiere Elements, into Premiere Elements 10. As I said in the beginning, that feature was removed from Version 10.

[Gerlinde]

It worked for me in PRE10 and I'm talking about instructions in this tutorial:
http://muvipix.com/products.php?searchp ... 3&btn.y=11

[RJ Johnston]

That's the same video that I viewed, and nope, can't do it. There isn't a menu item to import when you right-click. The only menu item I have is a greyed-out "Delete."

In Version 10, can't import preset.

From PRE10.jpg

In Version 8, can import preset.

From Version 8.jpg

[Gerlinde]

This is odd, I does not work for me now either.
I have PRE7 on the same computer, but the project I used for testing was a AVCHD project. It won't even open in PRE7.
I have no explanation