sorry, I couldn't help but laugh at your frustration as I read your post. Sorry, I'll try and help.

What is it you're trying to do? you might be able to do it by using openGL directly. for example, you could use openGL to create a surface to draw to, and then recolour the surface, in place of the tint command?

wipe your tears and use the search when you look for something.

http://processing.org/discourse/yabb_beta/YaBB.cgi?board=OpenGL;action=display;num=1211032462

You are looking for MovieMaker library, there is an example as well.
I recently made a test of the various options, so you can see another example at Test of MovieMaker video type.

If you could render a tinted,using tinted(), texture polygon, using texture(), with strokeweight, using strokeWeight(5) outline onto a mov file, using MovieMaker(), I will be speechless. However, I am hopeless.

thx anyway

ok,
if you can see a transparent square, I'll ....

///////////////////////////////////////////////////
import processing.opengl.*;

PImage img;
float off_x, off_y;
void setup()
{
 int w,h;
 off_x=30;
 off_y=30;
 img = loadImage("ai_300_300.jpg");
 w = (int)(img.width+off_x*2);
 h = (int)(img.height+off_x*2);
 size(w,h,OPENGL);

 background(0);
 tint(255,0,0,25);
 strokeWeight(5);
 stroke(0,255,0);
 textureMode(NORMALIZED);
}
void draw()
{
 background(0);
 beginShape();
   texture(img);
   vertex(off_x,off_y,0,0);
   vertex(img.width+off_x,off_y,1,0);
   vertex(img.width+off_x,img.height+off_y,1,1);
   vertex(off_x,img.height+off_y,0,1);  
 endShape();
}