

So, to combat that, we’ve rounded up some of the best plugins available to you for FREE, for Final Cut Pro X.

But, if you don’t have a nest egg to draw from for investments in your editing suite, plugins can be a hard sell. They’re excellent at condensing complicated tasks into easy-to-use, drag-and-drop effects that speed up your edit and reduce stress. If you’re a follower of the old adage “Work smarter, not harder,” then plugins might be your new best friend.

To permanently remove it, drag it to the Trash.Expand your video editing toolkit with 13 FREE Final Cut Pro X plugins to boost your editing workflow and improve your final product. I will often keep seldom-used templates in a separate folder to be dragged back into the Motion Templates folder when needed. To remove an effect, make sure Final Cut is NOT running, then drag the effect out of the Templates folder. Inside each folder, you’ll find a folder containing any custom effects that you created in Motion, as well as folders from other FCP X vendors. Inside you’ll find different folders for different categories of effects, as illustrated above by this screen shot. Third, if neither of these first two options works, go to: > Movies > Motion Templates.For example, to remove an FXFactory plugin from your NLE, but not from your hard disk, open FXFactory, click the Installed button at the top, select the plug-in and uncheck Load on this system from the menu on the left. FXFactory, and other plugin integrators, often provide an Uninstall option.If the plugin was installed into its own folder in the Application folder, look there to see if there’s an Uninstall option.In fact, we have three general options to remove plug-ins: The User Library (not to be confused with a Final Cut Library).

In the past, this could be a painful experience because plug-ins could be stored in three different places: But, what happens if you need to delete a plug-in, either because you no longer need it or because it has become out of date? Plug-ins are those useful tools that allow us to customize our editing system for the work we need to get done.
