AVID - trouble saving project settings to user settings

[Erik]

hello,

when i try and save an active project setting (i.e. safe colors) to my user settings file it doesnt work. Once i quit the project and and open another one the setting is no longer saved.

What am i doing wrong?

If i save an active project setting to the site settings it works fine.

 

[Erik]

hello,

when i try and save an active project setting (i.e. safe colors) to my user settings file it doesnt work. Once i quit the project and and open another one the setting is no longer saved.

What am i doing wrong?

If i save an active project setting to the site settings it works fine.

 

[Chris W]

That's because it is a project setting and not a user setting - that is you need to set it for each project.

However, if you are on Media Composer, you can open up Site Settings and drag that setting over there.

Are you on Xpress? I'm not sure that it has that feature.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

 

[Chris W]

Ok...you can do it on Xpress...they don't make it as easy as on Media Composer.

On the project window click on the settings tab, then go to the file menu and select file: Open Settings File.

Navigate to the Xpress Pro Application folder, open the Settings folder, open the file called site settings.avs.

It should open a window. Then simply drag the safe colors setting into that window. (You can drag any setting that you would like to have a applied when you start a project - such as sequence starting timecode...etc)

Hope this helps. To do this in Media Composer all you need to do is go to Special: Site Settings and then drag over the settings.

Of course this only applies to new projects - site settings wont change already created projects.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

 

[Erik]

ok got it! Thanks

 

[Chris W]

You can also trash that file if you want to reset it to the defaults.

When your system is having trouble and doing strange things you can quit out and try trashing mcstate, site settings, and site attributes in the settings folder and relaunch.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

 

[Erik]

yea, iv herd about people having to do that because they can get corrupt.