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User profiles?
I’m a film student who does all of his editing in a computer lab-like setting.
Depending on the professor, we use either Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer for our editing, though lately, I have been using Avid more. While I have mixed feelings on Avid, there are some things that I really like about it. One of these things is the user profiles. I make the settings how I want them to be, and I can save it to my external HDD, so that I can have everything how I want it to be regardless of the computer I’m on, without having to go through everything manually. This is also nice because people like to change the settings on me.
As far as I can tell, there does not seem to be a similar thing in Final Cut. Am I just missing something?
Thank you.
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No user profiles. Of course you can have many custom keyboard layouts, interface settings, and I/O preferences, but its not all centrally located in one User Profile.
You can set up individual users at the OS level in Mac OSX. This will result in each user having his own set of preferences for FCP when he logs in. Just be careful to put anything that needs to be shared among all users in the Shared folder.
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Missing it.
Use these steps to make your own settings:
Create a new project > Create 4 bins; Filters, Generators, Transitions, Audio > Drag into those folders the Filters, Generators, etc that you use the most > Now select these bins and drag them over to the Favorites Bin in the Effects tab/window > Save the project as “basic setup” > With a sequence open, go to Button List under Tools > Find the buttons you like to use and drag them to the Button Bar on the Timeline > Then save the Button layout under Button Bars in the Tools Menu > Save project again > Do essentially the same thing with the Keyboard Layout under the Tools Menu > Save project again > Then arrange you windows the way you like them > Then go to Arrange under the Windows Menu and Save the layout > then save your project one more time > Close the project and quite FCP.
Now any project you open up you’ll always start with a nice group of favorites, the windows set up the way you want, etc. If someone changes any other these, just load up your saved Button Bar, Keyboard Layout, or Window layout. If someone gets rid or crashes the system and therefore deleting your favorites, just open the “basic setup” project you created, copy the Favorite Bins you created, save the project and there you go. They’ll be in your Effects tab/window in the Favorites bin again.
I have a multi-clip keyboard layout, a color correction window layout, even a paper edit layout, etc for any type of know situation I might be editing in. Makes life very easy.
Hope this helps.
Winston A. Cely
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