Masks: Ain't as easy as the video!

I'm looking for some help... I just watched this great online tutorial video: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-speedgrade-cs6/adding-impact-to-your-footage-with-speedgra de-cs6/ However, my experience is NOT matching that of the video.
I think something is "set up" incorrectly in my program. My save "folders" are red, and not white. I'm not getting the icon for "inside/outside" the mask. Changes are NOT registering.
I'm nearly possitive it's operator error!
Any help is greatly appreciated!

Hey Brian,
yes one Mask per Layerstack / Grading Layer (TL)
So if you want to do a vignette Over your Overall Grading
>Create Mask
>add Another Primary
>Offset + Choose In-/Outside
Same when isolating Areas in the secondary:
>create a matte
>create mask
>choose inside Mask
Hope that helps.
D-A

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Janieburmy,
You can always deauthorize all your machines from your store account page — just log in and view your account settings and there's a button to deauth all your machines. Which just means for the other machines, it will ask you for your store ID / password the next time you play a purchased song.
So, let's try the filter experiment.
On the start menu, click on "run". in the space it provides enter "regedit" without the quotes. This will open the registry editor.
Find the heading HKEYLOCALMACHINE. Click on it.
Find the heading SYSTEM inside it. Click on it.
Find the heading CurrentControlSet. Click
Find the heading Control. Click
Find the heading Class. Click
Find the heading that begins {4D36E965- Click
Go up to the Registry menu and select "Export Registry File... command. Make sure the "Selected Branch" radio button is checked and save that off somewhere that you can find it.
Delete the key named LowerFilter.
Select the key named UpperFilter, right click, select "modify". Then edit the text in the dialog to just say "GEARAspiWDM" followed by hitting the return key, the return after the word is important.
Then reboot, and see what iTunes does.
To get the system back to its previous state. Run Regedit again and use the Registry menu -> Import Registry File... command and select the file that you saved off in the first section.
I'm particularly interested in getting rid of the "AFS2K" driver in the chain — that's a old driver from a company that hasn't existed in years.
To answer your last question, why am I doing this?... I'm paying off a karmic debt. And someday we'll start that Tequila for Toonz paypal account and then I'll be set.

Image Matte / mask independent of the video applied

I have a project in which I need to do a 3 or 4-way split screen. While it's easy to set that up and position them at the right places, I cannot seem to find a way with which I could change the scale of the video with an Image Matte applied without changing that of the Matte as well. I can use offset and push the video around "underneath", so to speak, but I would love to be able to scale that video underneath as well. I know that could be done with a layer on top obscuring the video below but I find that rather cumbersome, especially with 4-way or more, adding quite a few more layers.
Any ideas?

Thank you for the comments and help above. Indeed there're many ways to achieve one effect.
My project is a 15mins cut with a lot of editing. The resulting footage is cutting in and out of 3/4-way splits every now and then. Most footages are at least 10mins long.
1. Nesting
Nesting sequences would generate a huge number of nested sequences (which is already the case due to a few multi-cam moments).
2. Putting clips into its own sequences
Again, I would have to go into the sequences and find the exact moment where I need to do the zooming and such.
Ideally, I would love to be able to:
1. Create a preset of the each 'way' of splitting for individual clips. For example, in a 4-way split, presets for Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left and Bottom Right. And then I can just drop one of these effects onto a clip.
2. scale the clip freely without going into another sequence or nested sequence. The matte stays there without being scaled
Sometimes I have nested sequence of anthoer nested sequence. It's just a project nightmare after a while. Anyway, well, I guess I'll just have to deal with it. Thanks!

How to Secure or mask the Video Streaming on Azure Blob Storage

I have a problem on using my Azure Blob Storage, this is for streaming specifically MP4 files.
I have a wordpress site and I use Azure Blob Storage for my Storage, I use CloudberryExplorer for my browsing and editting
My problem is that, the wordpress site Video Option which is MediaElemtJs have an exposed Video Source (This mean they can use the video source for their own project)
Is their a way to mask or hide the video source? or I can limit the video source that it should only be coming from my site

hi Franz,
Base on my experience, there has two approaches for this issue.
1.Using the SAS in js request.
Like this:
<source src="https://MY-AZURE-STORAGE.blob.core.windows.net/asset-b1ebfc63-4e1f-4c76-b2dd-b040113aa493/MigratingWebSitesAndDatabasesToWindowsAzure_mid.mp4?sv=2012-02-12&st=2013-09-03T17%3A17%3A20Z&se=2015-09-03T17%3A17%3A20Z&sr=c&si=efc57c3c-a025-41cd-a8b1-908231c7aed2&sig=xyiIxmqNdF%2Bo1x7eq89xCUgXkenZLEEpq%2B%2Bo715dT0U%3D" type="video/mp4">
Please see this blog:http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-dotnet-shared-access-signature-part-1/
You could set the start time,expire time and permission into your request. And you could use javascript to create the request and set src value. please see this sample (http://gauravmantri.com/2013/02/16/uploading-large-files-in-windows-azure-blob-storage-using-shared-access-signature-html-and-javascript/
2.Create a web handler to handle the request url
You could create a .ashx page and handle the url in .ashx page. Like this:
<video src="videos.ashx?source=file.mp4" width="640" height="480" controls></video>
Please try it.
Also, you could see this threads
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9756837/prevent-html5-video-from-being-downloaded-right-click-saved form some ideas.
Regards,
Will
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If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
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Had to rebuild iTunes library and it won't accept most of the videos it previously had? Why?

I'm having a strange problem with iTunes -
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When I add media from my dLink surveillance camera, the avi files always land in audio instead of the video area. Why, and how can I get them to land as visual?

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Well this workflow should work but I don't know if there might be problems down the road.
Bring all your prores files with the problem audio into compressor. Apply the audio 48k16 bit preset to them. This will create individual aiff files with fcp friendly settings.
Bring the resulting aiffs into fcp. Select the video qt and audio aiff in the browser for one clip and control click on one of them and choose merge clip. This should create new clips with the good audio as channels 3 and 4 (assuming the original files have 2 channels of audio).
You should then be able to edit the merged clip into the timeline and by just patching channels 3 and 4 (the 48k16bit audio tracks) into your timeline and unpatching channels 1 and 2. , you should not need to render the audio.
Try testing this workflow on one clip and see if everything works before doing all of the clips.
If any of this is not clear or you need help with any of this, post back.
Frankly, you might be just as easy and safer to reconvert all the clips with the audio enabled to 48k16bit in compressor. You could also edit each clip into it's own sequence, replace the ng audio with aiffs made as I described above and then export reference quicktimes to edit with.

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Hi there,
I am creating a project containing video content that will be delivered on an ipad. I would like my video to behave like many other videos do on ipad publications:
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1. The poster frame appears small before it is clicked
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I can almost see a big grin appearing in Bob's avatar...
Hopefully his reply has given you a clue already?
If not, some explanation:
Many settings in the standard "Media" panel (for both video and audio) don't apply for publications that need to go the Folio-way. This panel is mainly concerned with lovely Flash stuff, but apart from the Poster frame and the Markers, it is useless for Folio's.
A quick guide: create a video with the necessary codec (H.264 for video, MP# or AAC for audio) at the required pixel size (exact width/height). Simply Place the file in InDesign, but don't scale it (or recreate and place a properly sized new video afterwards). Choose what to do with the Poster frame (and maybe some Markers), but all other settings are done in the Overlay Creator.
Check Bob Bringhurst's Tutorials and his DPS Tips app for more info. But I guess you get the idea now.

I took some video on my Iphone and uploaded it ot Iphoto - now I Cant locate the video and it has been deleted from the iphone?

Thats pretty much it.
Took the video less just over a week ago, subsequent videos and pics have been uploaded without issue and are easy to locate.
Just cant find the couple of videos from that day.
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I agree with LowLister, the best option for you to share the video online is to upload it to your online storage account for example : Box, Dropbox, SkyDrive (All of them provide free storage beginning from 2GB).
You can upload the files which you want to share in this online storage and then they have sharing options in which you'll will get the link of the file to be sent and send the email. You're good to go!
Tip : You can store multiple files for backup purposes.

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