Two ways you could achieve this... (But would have to install new software and rebuild fx, so may not be practical for this edit)
1. Avid fx.
2. Eyeon connection and fusion
With both of these you can have one effect on a top layer in your mc timeline and composite using the layers below. With eyeon it's node based. (Somewhat like having smoke's cfx within mc). Eyeon does have to export the media... Which makes it a bit impractical, but it does render in the background whilst you continue to edit, allegedly.
Avid fx comes for free and may already be installed. Not sure that its keying is up to spectramatte though...
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Breuer" <tonybreuer@...> wrote:
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> Symphony 6.0.1.1, MAC Pro 8 core 16 Gig Ram
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> I'm cutting a corporate gig with a lot of repetitive effects (resizing backgrounds, PowerPoint slides in a monitor screen, Spectramatte the presenter and a bug on top) on 5 different video tracks.
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> It's been a while since I did a job like this, but I seem to remember that I used to select a series of clips on the timeline by lassoing them from left to right and then double click on the effect I wanted in my effects bin and the effect would be applied to all the selected clips in the timeline.
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> I have tried doing that to no avail on this job and have been dragging and dropping the effects on each individual clip in order to get what I want.
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> Did this change at some point and I am not aware of it?
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> If it did, this is a major PITA. It's a real drag and I'm ready to drop. .
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> Tony (Pun intended) Breuer
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