Vitascene cannot be customized in VS 2023

Thanks Robert -- that's interesting. But when I installed VS 2023, I only got one smallish download pack, that only had one setup file. And when I installed it, everything was included, including the proDAD package minus Rotopen and Script. I have looked and that is all I have. Yet as you say, previous versions had those separate folders so it was possible with them to reinstall the bonus features. And it was that which gave me the idea to suggest just copy/pasting the relevant Vitascene vft from an earlier version.

So can you tell me how you got a download which included those various folders for VS 2023?

Hi Ken
We’re you downloading the installation files for the first time or after uninstalling VS.
I had a similar issue where the download files were smaller than normal. What size is your 64bit folder?

I had assumed I had preformed a full uninstall of all plugins the “do not download installed files” seemed to be used indicating to me that I had missed some when uninstalling.
I had thought Corel may have moved more plugins to the Welcome Store, but not so.

The next time I ran clean installation all downloaded and installed OK.

At the time I did report to Centercode as it occurred after SP1.

Hi Ken
As you know by default the downloaded files will be saved to a folder on our desktop.
Do you have a Video Studio 2023 folder on your desktop?

I change that location to my D Drive to avoid loading my C Drive.

We can only download the Installation files after uninstalling the program, only then can we see or change the download location.

If you wish to download the latest programs installation files then you will have to uninstall, run the cleanup tool, then manually uninstall My DVD and the New Blue plugins.

Check Program and Features for any other VS associated bits.

I usually run the Web installer to download only, check the download files, then run again to install the program.

I most certainly have never had a VS2023 on my desktop, nor for earlier versions either. Nor is there one hidden in my Program Files folder, apart from the installed version. And I used the one general setup file I mentioned to install VS on my test computer. That contains all the same plug-ins, including Vitascene. And in installing it, no folder was created on the desktop or moved elsewhere.

As part of the installation process, as usual, a quick reinstall version of VS was installed in the Program Files (x86) folder. But I had already checked that and on opening the Cabinet file contained in it, could not find reference to Vitascene or the other bonus plugins.

As I have also said, the only version of VS2023 which contains the Bonus Features folder is in the later versions of the Beta version from when we were beta testing it before its public release. But my public release folder does not contain it, just that installer file I have mentioned. Maybe the fact that Vitascene and the other plugins were installed in the late beta stage meant they were not removed when the beta version was removed and replace by the public release version. But it would still seem strange to me that the PR version did not contain much the same structure and content as those beta versions ... but it simply doesn't!

That being said, I really don't intend to uninstall my current VS2023 which correctly shows build 26.1.0.268 and which behaves impeccably, even if it did not show the fault which caused the hotfix to be created. And of course I have all the proDAD plugins, including Vitascene, nicely embedded in it. So there would be no point reinstalling anyway. All I was trying to do was help this other user on the Facebook group, and at least I have pointed them in the right direction, even if I have nothing in that direction myself!!