Preference Manager

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Preference Manager

Hi there,
has anyone experiences with the preference manager?
I ask myself if there is a difference to save projects
with the preference manager instead of just saving it from the finder.
And I don´t understand how to use the "workflow" function an din which case I should do this.
Thanks for your tips.
Andrea

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Jun 27, 2010 11:06 PM

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Answer 1

Shane Ross

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Jun 27, 2010 11:12 PM in response to fcploesungen

has anyone experiences with the preference manager?

yes.

I ask myself if there is a difference to save projects with the preference manager instead of just saving it from the finder.

There is. #1, You press one button to trash all three files, so you don't have to go digging. Just launch, click, done. #2, you can backup your GOOD preferences, after you set all your settings, so that when you trash them (when the system is acting wonky), you just restore the good ones. Otherwise you have to go back and setup all your settings manually again. And this can take a lot of time.

Shane

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Answer 2

Jun 28, 2010 11:59 AM in response to fcploesungen

fcploesungen wrote:
And I don´t understand how to use the "workflow" function an din which case I should do this.

It's just a category. There is no functional difference between this and any of the other categories.

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Answer 3

Jun 28, 2010 12:03 PM in response to Shane Ross

Shane Ross wrote:
There is. #1, You press one button to trash all three files, so you don't have to go digging. Just launch, click, done. #2, you can backup your GOOD preferences, after you set all your settings, so that when you trash them (when the system is acting wonky), you just restore the good ones. Otherwise you have to go back and setup all your settings manually again. And this can take a lot of time.

Also, to add to Shane's comment, here is the recommended workflow for using Preference Manager:

1. Trash preferences (make sure FCP is closed).
2. Launch FCP and customize your settings.
3. Backup your preferences.
4. If a problem occurs, restore the saved preferences instead of trashing them. This is quicker because you don't need to set everything up again when you relaunch FCP.
5. (optional) Lock your preferences so that they can't become corrupt.

This is all explained in the manual btw.

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fcploesungen Author

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Jun 29, 2010 12:11 AM in response to Shane Ross

Thanks Shane for answering, but I asked myself
about the possibility to save PROJECTS, not preferences.
Or is it the same and I just didn´t understood ?
And the using of the workflow possibility still isn´t
clear to me. Is this useful if I have, for example
every time the same export ways, or is compressor attached +in this
workflow function as well ? Or is it perhaps the possibility to save
special effects ? Copies with different audio routings?
Or Duplicates with different solutions ?
Thanks, if you have an idea to this,
Andrea

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Answer 5

Jun 29, 2010 12:18 AM in response to fcploesungen

Preference Manager only handles preferences. It has nothing to do with projects.

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fcploesungen Author

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Jun 29, 2010 9:38 PM in response to Jon Chappell

Ok, but why can I choose
under Basic, "Show, All",
or "Projects" or "Users", or
"workflows".
What is it for ?
I can just imagine, that under "users" the
final Cut pro user Data will be saved.
But which files under the others ?
Thanks for any ideas,
Andrea

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Answer 7

Jun 29, 2010 9:40 PM in response to fcploesungen

No, these are the types of backups. They correspond to the backup categories. It's just a way of filtering out certain types of backups if you so wish.

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Rienk

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Jun 30, 2010 10:00 AM in response to Jon Chappell

@OP: backing up projects can be done with software from the same software company.
[FCP Versioner|http://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcp_versioner.htm] not only backs up your projects, it also keeps track of project versions.
I've not used it, and it's not free, but it might be what you are looking for?

Rienk

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fcploesungen Author

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Jul 12, 2010 8:53 PM in response to Rienk

Ok, thank you Rienk, now its clear.

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