I come from the background of using Motion and Final Cut Pro. I am one of the few programmers who uses the FxPlug API which is used to make Motion and Final cut Pro Plugins. I am expanding into trying to create plugins for premiere pro. I am confused by After Effects and Premiere Pro having two different SDKs. After Effects seems to have some structure to it with a parameter setup and methods for rendering while Premiere Pro seems to have very little structure to it. I noticed that I can open .plugins created with the After Effects SDK both inside After Effects and Premiere Pro while I have had trouble getting any of the Premiere Pro .bundle's to work correctly at all. What is the difference in making a .bundle vs a .plugin when .plugins seem to work in both?
I am on a Mac and using Xcode and anytime I try to debug any of the example projects that came with the Premiere Pro SDK I have this error. "This file path does not exist on disk at this location. /Applications/Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017/Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 - NSDocumentRevisonsDebugMode YES".
I cant even get one of the example projects off the ground to mess with one for debugging and testing purposes. What are the benefits of using one SDK over the other?
My last question relates to effects and project media files. Do you need to insert media into the project every time or can I have media built into an effect kind of like a Generator in Final Cut Pro. In Final Cut Pro you can have media cooked into an effect and media is not needed in the project or the timeline to accomplish this. It seems like effects only offer presets that are just a difference in parameters but do not have any media built into them. Is it possible to have media inside of an effect in either Premiere Pro SDK or After Effect SDK?