Missing smoothcam and soft focus effect

Hi. I recently archived and reinstalled my operating system (leopard). Now when I try to make a quicktime from my timeline, it says, "unable to load softcam and smoothcam effects." Any idea why smoothcam and soft focus disappeared and anyone know how to put them back in? reinstalling final cut is a bad option -- my FC DVDs are at my parents' house (four hours away). I do have a 'previous systems' backup from the archive and reinstall and time machine back-ups...

Check the /Library/Application Support/ProApps/Internal Plug-Ins/FxPlug folder ... if you don't see Filters.bundle and SmootCam.fxplug then you need to grab those files from the previous systems backup.
Gotta say tho', a clean reinstall would be best.

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