We have four editing workstations connected to a shared storage system.  We found that is a template is saved into a user made folder on the shared storage it becomes difficult to edit and use on other systems.  Does Avid Media Composer require the templates to be located on the OS drive in order to function properly?  If we were to need to copy templates to the shared storage system, what is the proper way to do that?

What do you mean by "difficult to edit"? You should be able to open a title tool template from any location the Avid can see.

That was my original thought too.  When we tried using the template on the network it would not allow us to select the container the text was in to adjust the size.  We also chouldn't change the size of the text and sometimes couldn't change the color.  Once we put the template back on our system drive (C:) the template worked fine.

Do all the workstations have the "all" of the fonts used in the template installed? The same Network permissions? 

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "all", but as I did mention, once I placed the template on the local drive of each machine (5 total, 3 running MC 7.0.4 and 2 running 8.2) the template became editable again.  We're just using plane old Areil text and retangle boxes.  Probably the most boring titles you've ever seen.

Any other ideas?

My instant thought was that you could map the Folder with the template in it as a Network drive (say T:) from each of the individual workstation.   I have had success with this in the past.   Set the Title folders sharing permissions for all users to everything.

Tim:

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "all", but as I did mention, once I placed the template on the local drive of each machine (5 total, 3 running MC 7.0.4 and 2 running 8.2) the template became editable again.  We're just using plane old Areil text and retangle boxes.  Probably the most boring titles you've ever seen.

Any other ideas?

Tim - how are you sharing your projects? Almost certainly this is a windows permission error, but remember for Avid to do things seamlessly in a shared environment then you need a server that specifically talks to Avid. (ISIS, SmallTree etc) Otherwise you'll constantly run into issues like this - you can work around them with a decent knowledge of Windows network topology etc but you do need to know the ins and outs.

PS - did you also say you were storing projects and media on your system drives? This is not good practice and I would strongly recommend that all projects and media are at least stored on RAID protected arrays. Reserve your system drive specifically for programs etc and back it up.