The Visual Effects and Finishing application installation packages come with sample software initialisation configuration files for the usual needs of working with NTSC, PAL, HDTV, or film material.

These samples are located in the /usr/discreet/<product_home>/cfg/linux-x86_64/sample/usr/discreet/<product_home>/cfg/macosx-x86_64/sample directory.

You should never edit the sample configuration files. Instead, either make a copy of the sample software initialization configuration file that you like or just edit the real init.cfg file.

These samples are starting points toward configuring the software to best suit your needs.

Using a text editor, you can open a software initialisation configuration file for viewing. For example, you may want to read the keywords in different software initialisation configuration samples to see the differences. This is a good way to learn more about configuration keywords.