Settings & Switching between projects—NUTS!!!!

[David Roth weiss]

Take a peek at the app mentioned in this thread, and be sure to look at Steve’s short video demo. Its the answer to your prayers.

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_thread.cgi?forumid=8&postid=943702&univpostid=943702

“No job is worth doing more than once…”

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

[Walter Biscardi]

[pSquared] “But, now I work in multiple formats for different projects. Did I miss something? When swithching from say, a NTSC 29.97 4:3, to a VeriCam 720p 60, I’ve got to go in and change all the settings so I can capture, monitor/view and what not. Projects that are already in progress and on going.

Is there no other way? This is causing huge time waste and head ache.”

We work in 8 different formats now and often multiple formats on the same system on the same day. We simply use the Easy Setups and we’re done.

You can also look at that app mentioned in David’s post, but quite honestly, Easy Setup and we’re done in one click. Quite simple, really.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Phillip Powell]

for the project to remember its settings? I mean, come on—can it be that hard?

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[Phillip Powell]

for the project to remember its settings? I mean, come on—can it be that hard?

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[David Roth weiss]

[walter biscardi] “You can also look at that app mentioned in David’s post, but quite honestly, Easy Setup and we’re done in one click. Quite simple, really.”

Walter,

I’m working on numerous projects simultanously, all in different formats and most on client supplied hard drives or on different sets of my own hot swappable drive arrays. So, every time I switch from one project to the next I have to switch all the settings, for easy setups, for viewer setups, and for hard drives. RooSwitch will, in effect, allow me to create project-based prefs, which, in my opinion, is the way prefs should be stored anyway.

David

“No job is worth doing more than once…”

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

[Steven Gonzales]

One way to do this is to set up a different OS 10 user for each project (or project type). Since each user has their own preferences for Final Cut, they can be different (including scratch disk and project setups).

Then enable fast user switching, quit Final Cut for the “DV NTSC” user prefs, then log on as the user that has “DVCPROHD” user prefs, and you will have all your settings.

Fast user switching is enable under system prefs – accounts – login options.

[David Roth weiss]

[pSquared] “for the project to remember its settings? I mean, come on—can it be that hard?”

Could not agree more!!!

“No job is worth doing more than once…”

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

[Walter Biscardi]

[pSquared] ”
for the project to remember its settings? I mean, come on—can it be that hard”

That’s been probably the number one complaint for FCP since day one. Why it has universal settings and not project based settings I’ll never know.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.

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[Walter Biscardi]

[David Roth Weiss] “Walter,

I’m working on numerous projects simultanously, all in different formats and most on client supplied hard drives or on different sets of my own hot swappable drive arrays. So, every time I switch from one project to the next I have to switch all the settings, for easy setups, for viewer setups,”

I have about 15 Window Presets depending on the project and what I’m doing, and the Easy Setups. In our case, the hard drives do not change so as for changing the Scratch Disc, that’s not a problem.

I’m just saying it’s quite simple to manage FCP if you understand how it works. It’s a pain, sure, but it’s not nuts and it’s not all that hard to manage. The plug-in sounds like a great app, we just really don’t need it in our situation.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.

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[Bret Williams]

Creating separate users for projects and switcthing between them instead of simply pressing ctrl+q and maybe changing a scratch disk? OMG. Bizarre.

I’m with Walter. Don’t find any of this to be an issue. Sometimes you have to change the scratch disk or a window layout. But I don’t work on a project for 10 minutes at a time. It’s hours or days. I can handle 45 seconds of setup.