This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: User Settings

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: User Settings

Hi,

You need to be doing all this from within Media Composer. There are no desktop operations involved here at all.

1) If you take a good look at your Project window, you'll see tabs labeled "Bins" "Effects," etc. Make sure the "Settings" tab of your Project Window is selected. Once you click on that tab, you should see a list of all your settings. The only other thing that might mess you up as you do this is a selection you make from the "hamburger" or pull down menu roughly located in the upper left of the Project window. Open this menu up and make sure that "All Settings" is selected, not just "Active Settings."

2) With the Project window active and the "Settings" tab selected, now go to the "File" menu in the upper left hand corner of your screen and select "Open." It should take you to a list of settings files. Open the settings file you want, and a little extra window with that list of settings will appear somewhere in your application space. I find it normally opens near the Project window.

3) Drag and drop any setting you want to copy, such as a keyboard setting, or a bin view setting, from the settings file you just opened over to your Project window. I believe it will ask you whether you want to replace the existing setting; I would say no, in which case you will see the new setting added to the list in your Project window.

4) Rename the new settings to distinguish them from the original settings. To make any of the new settings active, just click in immediately to the left of the setting name and you will see the check mark move from the old setting to the new one, indicating that it is active.

This should work, but if it doesn't, write again. Also check your help documents; I'm sure they have valuable info about copying and managing settings files.

Best,

Shirley

-----Original Message-----
From: rainbow07960 <rainbow07960@yahoo.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 9:45 am
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: User Settings

I could not get it to work. I tried dragging various Settings files from
Explore into Project Window/setting tab. Maybe I was in the wrong place since I
did not see a Kbd file.

I also looked for the "File Open" and could not find.

Could someone provide more details on how to copy my co workers settings and
create my own.

Avid Media Composer 3.5. adrenaline on a PC/XP
Avid Newbee
I am good with PC

Thanks in advance,
Richard Kretchmer
www.RainbowVideo.Net

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "rainbow07960" <rainbow07960@...> wrote:
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> Thank you all for your help. I will give it a try when I get in the end room
today.
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> Thank you!
> Richard Kretchmer
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, guanacaa@ wrote:
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> > I think it should be emphasized that you have to have the project window's
"settings" tab selected, otherwise when you use "File Open" you'll be the dialog
will show you bin files, not settings files.
> > I've never had a problem copying other users' settings into my own. I do
this for very specific bin views, and more often, deck control settings.
> >
> > Shirley
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roger Shufflebottom <rshuff@>
> > To: Avid-L <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Sun, Oct 18, 2009 3:19 pm
> > Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] User Settings
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> > With a project open with your settings, navigate to his settings file, open
> > it and drag the ones you like (Kbd, whatever) to your Project window -
> > you'll get an option to add to or replace your settings.
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> > On 18/10/2009 20:45, "rainbow07960" <rainbow07960@> wrote:
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> > > I would like to take a co-worker's Avid user settings and adapt them to
the
> > > way I like to work.
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> > +++
> > With best wishes,
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> > Roger Shufflebottom
> > Avid Certified Instructor
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