General Preferences

Project Information

Project Framerate field

Displays the framerate that corresponds with the current project's default resolution. Non-editable.

Incoming Sync

Incoming Sync field

Displays the timing of the sync received by the workstation. Non-editable.

Timecode

Display Dual Timecodes button

Enable to display both 29.97 and 23.97 fps timecode on the timeline and in the Player. This allows you to monitor which transitions will fall on jitter frames when 2:3 insertion is applied.

Dual TC: 23.97->29.97 fps NDF/DF box

Select whether to view the 29.97 fps timecode in the Dual Timecode display as either drop frame or non-drop frame.

Drop Frame Reference Timecode field

Displays the point at which the 29.97 fps material is in sync with the 23.97 fps material. Editable.

Drop Frame Bump Mode box

Select a translation mode for invalid calculator entries.

Player

Preroll field

Displays the number of preroll frames when using the Replay option in the Player. Editable.

Postroll field

Displays the number of postroll frames when using the Replay option in the Player. Editable.

Source Time Mode box

Select to display the timecode, keycode, or frame number of the source clip in the Player.

Auto-Toggle Player button

Enable to open the Player automatically when you press the keyboard shortcuts for playback.

Display Sequence Viewer button

Enable to display the currently selected sequence as a thumbnail with a red border in the Thumbnail view. When disabled, the selected sequence does not appear Thumbnail view.

Untitled Clip Name

Untitled Clip Name box

Select an automatic timestamp option to rename untitled clips to make it easier to distinguish multiple <Untitled> clips.

Rendered Clip Name

Rendered Clip Name box

Select whether to add an acronym indicating the area of the software your clip was rendered from as a prefix or suffix to a rendered clip name, if a setup name does not already exist for the clip.

Stereo Naming

Left Eye field

Displays the token used to identify left eye media in a stereo clip split or exported. Editable.

Right Eye field

Displays the token used to identify right eye media in a stereo clip split or exported. Editable.

Animation

Default Interpolation box

Select the default interpolation type for the channel editor.

Default Extrapolation box

Select the default extrapolation type for the channel editor.

Audio Gain Animation

Default Audio Interpolation box

Select the default audio interpolation type for the channel editor.

Autosave

Soft Save field

Displays the time delay for a soft autosave. A small red icon appears indicating a two-second delay before a soft autosave occurs (allowing for a cancellation with any movement in the application). Editable.

Hard Save field

Displays the time delay for a hard autosave. A hard autosave occurs at the specified time regardless of user intervention. Editable.

Tools Save field

Displays the time delay for aan autosave when you are using a tool that you accessed from the Tools tab. Editable.

Help Location

Help Location button

Displays the location of the product help. By default, the product help is available online. You must have an internet connection to view it. You can download and install the help locally from the Autodesk website.

Browse Help button

Opens a browser window. Select the folder that contains the help that you downloaded from the Autodesk website.

Reset Help button

Resets the help location to the default.

Help Location field

Displays the location of the help.

Setups

Scale Setups button

Enable to scale setups when loading that were created in a resolution different from that of the current project.

Image Data Type

Image Data Type box

Select a default image type setting.

Undo

Clear Buffer button

Removes clips from the undo buffer and frees up disk space on the framestore

Undo Level field

Displays how many levels of information are saved to the undo buffer. Editable.

Clip Select

Ignore Scan Format button

Enable to disregard scan mode mismatches.

Background Tasks

Update field

Displays a value, in seconds, for the wait time to update the Backburner Queue. Editable.

Default Rendering Options

Render box

Select whether you want to include history and/or Burn when rendering.

Keep History Mode box

Select whether Sources or Intermediates and Sources appear on the workspace when working with clip history.

Shared Folders