Save project settings as presets?

[David Roth weiss]

It’s the same with every NLE. You save a project that contains all your favorite settings, and you open that and do a “save as” every time you start a new project.

David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss Productions
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David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Marc Wielage]

[David Roth Weiss] “It’s the same with every NLE. You save a project that contains all your favorite settings, and you open that and do a “save as” every time you start a new project.”
That’s exactly what I do: use an empty “template” project with all the bins, project settings, render destinations, effects, and so on already set up, then do a Save As to the name of the new session. There’s a lot of little settings that do not save as part of a project config.

[Duke Sweden]

I know I’m just stupid old me, but what I did was create a project with all my settings (timeline 4096×2160, etc.) click on the gear in the lower right corner, choose “Presets” and saved it. I named it Sparky after my dog. No, just kidding, I named it Template, and I can just create a new project and choose that preset. Is that any different from what you guys suggested?

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[Tom Knight]

Thank you all for your tips, that’s great. You helped me very well.