The
scope of a project depends on your facility's needs or individual
projects. It may be a complete film, a special effects shot, an
image sequence, or any other collection of shots/images. From an
administrative point of view, a project is a set of folders and
a set of preferences.
NoteYou can use scripts
to automate the creation of projects, either to build a project
structure from scratch, or to bring a project structure into Composite
(including media). For more information on scripts, see the Composite
Python® API online documentation (from the Windows Start menu, choose Programs
> Autodesk > Composite > Composite Documentation > Scripting API).
Project Preferences
At the beginning of a
project, you can define the following preferences:
- General The
physical location of the home folder and the command line for the
render queue.
- Composition The
default format for any compositions you create in the project, as
well as the name template used when creating new versions for this
composition.
- Render To
select a render folder, file name pattern, file format and optional
wiretap location.
- Render Actions To
create render actions and define the command-line associated with
them.
- Import To
define the folder in which imported media is stored.
- Post-Import To
define tasks that can be executed after footage has been imported.
Caching is one of these tasks, but you can define arbitrary post-import
tasks that will become available in the contextual menus for importing
footage.
- Pre-Compositing To
set the properties for working with pre-comp files— see
About Pre-Compositing.
- Tools Tool-specific
preferences can be set here. Currently only the CTL tool allows
these preferences — see
CTL Tool.
- Archive The
target directory and file name pattern of archives you create in
Composite, and the scripts that are executed to perform, archive
and restore operations.
- Metadata User
Defined Attributes (UDA) editor for project-specific attributes.
You can add, modify or remove UDAs that can then be used in token
substitutions to form paths and file names.
For more information,
see
Setting Project Preferences.
