After effects cs4 says .aex is an unrecognized file extension

I have searched the forums for a solution, but i've been trying to use the element 3d plug-in from video copilot for quite a while. It's an .aex plugin, and I have it in the right plugin folder, but no matter what I do, it will not work. Please help!

What kind of system do you have? Are you trying to access the plug-in from the Effects menu or Effects and Presets Panel?
All installers are not equal. There should have been some documentation with the plug-in.

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I just installed a fresh OS and CS4 and AE throws an error when I load it. Can you please help me figure out how to fix it?
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After Effects error: plug-in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS4\Support Files\Plug-ins\Format\WMImport.AEX" could not be loaded (126).
(48 :: 46)
The machine is a dual xeon quad core 2.5 SuperMicro with 16gb of memory and several TBs of storage. The OS is Vista 64 SP2, with all of the updates applied. AE is version 9.0.2. I've uninstalled AE, and reinstalled it, with the same error still coming up.
All help is appreciated.
Thank you,
Mike

As Steve said, re-installing Windows Media Player seems a good idea. Manually initiate a Windows Update and check, if you are offered to upgrade to WMP 11 or if it's already on your system. if it is, then you may need to download the Windows Media Redistributable package and install it manually. The plug-in may be looking for an old DLL or registry key that is no longer used by WMP 11, but usually would be on your system when you ran the updates from an earlier state. Also consider installing an alternate Media Player like VLC. This may also fix the misconfiguration of the Windows Media components.
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>i would just like to know if i can fix this problem
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Hello, Scireja.
I think there is a very widespread but understandable confusion regarding the nature of two different kinds of OMF files.
From your description, it seems like you want to export an OMF exchange file, which is a common way to translate a video timeline into something you can take to a DAW application like Pro Tools for audio post, while keeping the audio edits as separate clips.
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Verify the following:
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I know I am being stupid, but where is the 9.0 folder? Which one is it again? Sorry, I know I know this, but I cannot remember at the moment and Google is not helping me.

Mylenium wrote:
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Mylenium
Thanks Mylenium! I was actually able to figure it out. Duh is all I have to say to myself.
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Hi!
I've been experiencing a lot of problems lately with several CS4 products.
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I have experienced this problems in two different projects in different forms (but both pre-cut in premiere). In the first, audio disappeared while previewing but was there when I ctrl-scrolled and rendered (no I hadn't muted audio in the preview panel). In the second, audio was completely gone even when rendered.
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Anyone else experiencing this? Or am I missing something huge?
As additional notes, the dynamic link function seems extremely buggy and both premiere both sometimes complains about "dynamic link already in use and only one connection blah blah" even though only one link is used, and even though you restart the projects, programs, computer, whatever.
In furher addition Adobe Media Encoder (which also seems to be using some sort of dynamic link offspring) is super-buggy and most codec formats either doesn't start to render or just renders partially and then the program hangs. The problem have a connection with a process named pproheadless.exe eating upp all the RAM (4gbs).
(My workstation has been working smoothly for one and a half years and I have had very little problems with CS3 and "just" AE CS4. I am cautious of updates, don't have spyware and use Quicktime 7.5 as 7.5.5 is superbuggy and people seems to have problems with 7.6 and it doesn't fix the gamma issues anyway.)
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Dude, that's what these forums are all about. Everyone in here says they dont work for Adobe, but they all act like apologists for what is clearly a disaster of a software release. My complaints aren't as specialized as yours, just very basic, and I wont go into all of them, because the list is long, and includes nearly every program in CS4.
I'm going for a refund, either from the retailer or my credit card company. Releasing software like this is dishonest.

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