General Preferences

Project Information

Project Frame rate field

Displays the frame rate that corresponds with the current project's default resolution. Non-editable in Preferences, but can be changed in Project Settings.

Field Dominance field

Displays the current project's field dominance. Non-editable in Preferences, but can be changed in Project Settings.

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 users 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

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.

Jog / Shuttle on Drag button

Enable to shuttle a clip in the Player when jogging. The further from the center of the clip that the cursor is placed and dragged, the faster the shuttling.

Auto-Toggle Trim View button

Enable to automatically display the Trim View when double-clicking a timeline cut, or when double-clicking a timeline segment with Slip or Slide mode selected.

Untitled Clip Name

Untitled Clip Name box

Select an 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 that clips were 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 an autosave when using a tool that you accessed from the Tools tab. Editable.

Media Protection Mode button

Enable to trigger an autosave after adding clips or folders to the Media Panel, or after processing clips on the Desktop. As with a regular autosave, the size of the Desktop and libraries dictates the time it takes for the save to complete.

For example, the following operations trigger a save when Media Protection is enabled.

• In the MediaHub tab, once all the clips are imported.
• In the Conform tab, after importing a sequence such as an AAF.
• After a VTR capture, once the clips are written to the Media Panel.
• After a Wire transfer, once the transfer completes.
• In remote access, whenever one of the above operation is performed.
• After an archive restore, as soon as the restore is done.
• After moving content from a reel to a library.
• After moving from a library to another library.
• After moving from a library to a reel.

Help Location

Help Location button

Displays the location of the product help. By default, the product help is available online and requires an internet connection to view. Help files can be downloaded from the Autodesk website and installed locally.

If you want the local version of the Help, go to http://www.autodesk.com/vxf and look for the downloadable HTML version (zip) version of the help. You can unzip the file into the default Help location, or click Browse to select the folder where you unzipped the Help files.

Browse Help button

Opens a browser window. Select the folder that contains the help files 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.

Undo

Clear Buffer button

Click to remove clips from the undo buffer and free 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.

Rendering Display

Rendering Display box

Select whether to display all frames as they are rendered, or to allow the display of all frames with potential tearing.

History

Keep History Mode box

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

Default Rendering Options

Default Rendering Method box

Select whether the default rendering method is Render Selection or Render.

Default Rendering Option box

Select the default rendering option for the current project. Options depend on installed hardware and licenses (such as Burn or Background Reactor).

Include History button

Enable to include History when rendering.

Proxy Rendering

Proxy Rendering box

Select the rendering mode of your media. Options are: Full Resolution and Proxy, Full Resolution, and Proxy (Timeline Only).

Media Panel

Media Panel Position box

Select the location of the Media Panel.

Thumbnail Icon Frame field

Displays the frame used to create the thumbnail of a clip. If the clip is shorter than the specified value, the first frame is used instead. Editable.

Protect from Editing button

Enable to protect all of the contents in the libraries from editing. In order to work on media in a protected library, it must first be moved to the Desktop area of the Media panel.

Show Batch Iterations button

Enable to show the Iterations folder in Batch groups located on the Desktop and in libraries.

Duplicate Name Check box

Use to select which media elements the application checks for duplicate naming in the Media panel, and prompts you to either add the item using the same name, rename the new item, or replace the existing item.

Shared Libraries

Shared Libraries Refresh Rate field

Displays the frequence at which the application refreshes the contents of Shared Libraries. Editable.

Shared Libraries Lock Timeout field

Displays how long an inactive shared folder remains available for writing. Editable.