[Keith Mcgregor]

It kinda looks like you could just use solids and a blending mode, and I highly doubt it’s random. If we could actually see it frame by frame it would be more apparent to the eye, but alas, you tube. Did you try using colorama on a solid above the footage with a blending mode to mix it? Try that too.
-Keith

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[Keith Mcgregor]

It really doesn’t look like any effect but looks as though it is done with only color correction tools. Try this: create a new solid, apply either a ramp or the 4 color gradient to it and pick your colors, if you use the 4 color grad move the unused colors off the video footage, import footage if you hadn’t already and duplicate it, on the top footage desaturate it -100% and really punch up the contrast and play with gamma settings in the levels effect (or curves if you like), use the gradient as an alpha track matte for the lower video footage and blend the top footage with blending mode of your choice, I used color burn and lost some detail so I duplicated the footage again and removed any effects except for desaturation and set that one as an overlay. Then as a final control for the subject I added an adjustment layer and desaturated it more and messed with the brightness, then precomped and added a white bkgrnd. Hope this points you in the right direction!
Cheers! -Keith. see:

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[Keith Mcgregor]

Thanks a lot for your patience and responses. I checked permissions and the student account can only read, so we will have to make them use external drives always and all problems will be solved. If there is no way to relink footage from one drive and to point avid to another where it is to continue working on a project, then I guess that’s just life. (I don’t see how one could work this way on the go)
thanks a mill!
Keith

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[Keith Mcgregor]

Sorry M,
Ok, here goes… Log in to student account with no admin rights, launch avid, with no externals attached I try to import any media into avid, error msg= “no media drives available for import, you can still log shots” no biggie. go to console, type alldrives, hit return, try again, same thing (so that works for network drives but that’s not what I’m after, I want to make the boot drive available for importing media, for students tutorial media only) checked media creation tool, in each tab boot drive is greyed out with the “all drives filtered out” msg in list. When importing with no volumes connected there is no choice for media drive. Tried all again on admin account to no avail. My next question is: composer is only configured to work with external and network storage instead of the main system drive?
So in a nutshell, 2 things: 1. change which volume avid is looking for with certain clips and, 2. set the system/boot drive as a media drive. Apologies for my miscommunication and/or confusington on this and many thanks for your continued patience. (I hope this is a little more clear.)
-Keith

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[Keith Mcgregor]

Thanks M, but still I get an error that says no media drives for import when trying to import. We are a school so we are not using externals or servers, each workstation is self-contained and as such we need to import to the internal drive with the students being on a non-admin user. Should I recommend that each student get a dedicated AMA drive? Just for Avid? I believe that’s what I would do if it were me, but I use FCP and don’t like my media on the boot drive. Or will using an external thats used for all their projects be fine as long as they stick to the Avid file hierarchy?
Thanks for your response.
-Keith

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[Keith Mcgregor]

Thanks MM, only the first one is checked, filter network drives based on res is checked, but even when I un-check it, and restart the app, nada. We are running 10.6.3 I’m sure it is a media composer thing? I was only used to xpress, (using the omfi folder), and the regular IT guys finally did their job (for once) and set it up without letting me know anything aboot it. Now I am trying to play catch up and all I got is a week to finger this out.
Thanks for the reply,
-Keith

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[Keith Mcgregor]

I’ve heard a lot of people have problems with cs4 until they find the right
settings or even set a cache folder with a large size. Like 5gigs or so. I’m still
on cs3 for just that reason. I have almost no problems, but that’s what cs5 is
supposed to address. Happy cloning! -B

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[Keith Mcgregor]

I had the same type of problem when painting frame by frame on HD material for
20 or longer seconds. I solved it by splitting and continuing with the first half
Turned off so the memory was spent on shorter layers instead of reading the whole layer.
Also clean your database and cashes (in prefs) and Edit/Purge/All helps
too. have you already been doing this kind of thing and its th fist its happened? -B

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[Keith Mcgregor]

Hmm, if you have the masks on individual layers then duping them and moving the
anchor point to the center of where you want to scale down should work for the
insides but the 2 figures would be a manual placement. I haven’t seen a path offset
Like in illustrator. -B

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[Keith Mcgregor]

As long as you are using the ram preview and waiting for it to cashe there should
Be no prob. Double check your multiprocessor setting in prefs. Maybe change those settings
And see what happens. -B

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