George Toledo

Sorry.

I did, indeed, make that for people that had a mild familiarity with past install procedures.

Basically, Mac OS X Lion has decided to hide Library folders. They definitely did it in the User location (try to make one.... it will say you can't because there's one there! You can't see it though). They may have done it in /System and /HD as well, but I don't think so.

Anyway, one should always place QCPatches (errr, really "GFPlugins" which stands for "graph foundation), inside of your User locale. That way, the System itself tends to not load them, but also, if something buggy happens, one can create a new "User", login, and see if it was because of their User plugins/patches.

So....

You don't see the folder. Here's the deal. That's exactly why you see me write the path in. One can still manually use the "go to folder" function to get to that hidden Library.

You can also hold down Option while in that "Go" area of Finder, and you'll see an entry for Library come up. I believe that's the User location, but don't hold me to that. I used the "manual" "go to folder" function, when I did the clip, because I just wanted to be sure, and I'd literally made that fresh OS install about 10 minutes earlier (notice there were no plugins/patches already there).

You likely won't have a folder there (a Quartz Composer Patches folder). Create one. Place your patches (GFPlugins.... also called "skanky" or privateAPI), in that folder, or actual "qtz" files in there (if you have a functional arrangement of patches you can place that qtz in that area, and it will appear in your patch list now).

Restart QC. Now all of your patches should have loaded.

Now.... as you get into this, you'll see that some people recommend to load stuff in HD/Library. Some companies like Noise Industries (well, they ARE QCPlugins - standard API - but I'm making a larger point) will have installers that place stuff in HD/Library, often depending on whether you say you wish to have it installed for just you, or "all users". They may not give a choice at all. You may see old info that suggest that particular location as you browse the web.

.... and patches WILL load from there. They WILL also load from System/Library... but trust me, don't do it :-)

Let me know if that helps. This is literally the first mail of the morning I'm replying to, and I'm a "drink a ton of coffee" kinda guy. Haven't had but a gulp yet :-)

So, you ever notice how most pretty much nobody uses your plugins to as great of a visual effect as you do? Every time I see the way you use your motion blur and analog glitch, I'm like FUCK (and that's a good FUCK).