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.
Note
You 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:
- The physical location of the home folder and the command line for the render queue.
- 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.
- To select a render folder, file name pattern, file format and optional wiretap location.
- To create render actions and define the command-line associated with them.
- To define the folder in which imported media is stored.
- 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.
- To set the properties for working with pre-comp files— see About Pre-Compositing.
- Tool-specific preferences can be set here. Currently only the CTL tool allows these preferences — see CTL Tool.
- 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.
- 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.
