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# Project Settings

Use the Project settings to define:

- The Project Name
- The Project Home directory
- The Scans Home directory
- The Renders Home directory
- The Transcode Home directory
- The architecture
- The scan type
- The frame rate
- The proxy size
- The pixel ratio
- The Stereoscopy state
- The RED Timecode

For the project's directory structure, follow the guidelines described in Recommended Directory Structure for Projects. When entering a directory path, you can use the path browser. See Browsing for Paths.

(a) Percent/Pixel option box(b) Drop Frame button(c) Frame Rate field(d) Pixel Ratio slider

Project Name field
  Enter the name of the project.
Project Home field
  Enter, or browse to, the location of the main project directory.
Scans Full Home field
  Enter, or browse to, the location of the scanned footage directory.
Scans Half Home field
  Enter, or browse to, the location of the proxy footage directory.
Renders Full Home field
  Enter, or browse to, the location of the render directory for renders of (full resolution) footage.
Renders Half Home field
  Enter, or browse to, the location of the render directory for renders of proxy footage.

Architecture option box
  Toggle to set the default grading architecture and colour space while working in Lustre to logarithmic or linear.
Scan Type option box
  Toggle to set the default scan type.
Frame Rate buttons
  Enable the default frame rate for the project's timeline and editing tools.
Drop Frame button
  Enable when your shot contains drop frames. For the majority, this button is greyed-out since most of the default frame rates do not support drop frames. This button becomes available when you select a frame rate that supports drop frames (e.g., you have selected 29.97 or you have entered a personal frame rate within the frame rate field).
Frame Rate field
  Displays the selected default frame rate or you can enter your own frame rate within the field.
Output Colour Space option box
  Toggle to set the default colour space architecture when rendering to logarithmic or linear.
Percent/Pixel option box
  Toggle to set whether Lustre will determine the proxy width as a percentage of the original footage, or as a fixed number of pixels.
Proxy Width slider
  Use to define the default proxy width. Whether it is a percentage or a number of pixels is defined by the Percent/Pixel option box.
Pixel Ratio button
  Enable to configure the default aspect ratio.
Pixel Ratio slider
  Sets the default aspect ratio. Available if Pixel Ratio is enabled.
Stereoscopy button
  Enable to work on a stereoscopic project.

RED Timecode option box
  Select which RED media timecode to transcode. Note that when conforming an EDL, overiding the timecode data of the clips with a different timecode track will prevent relinking in the Autodesk Visual Effects and Finishing applications. For more information about RED media and transcoding, see Transcode Options 2012 Extension 1.

Select: | To:
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Primary | Select either the Time of Day or Edgecode timecode. Only select this option if you know which timecode has been set as the primary.
Time of Day | Establish a timecode field that is set by the internal clock from the RED camera.
Edgecode | Establish a timecode field that is set by the camera operator.

Project Template field
  Enter the name of a project template you wish to create in this field before clicking Save.
Save button
  Click to save the project settings of the current project to the template named in the Project Template field. Use to create a new template or to update an existing template.
Load button
  Click to load a project template after you select a template in the Template Name list.
Delete button
  Click to delete a project template after you select a template in the Template Name list.
Template Name list
  Select an existing project template from this list before loading or deleting the selected template. See Working with Templates.