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Selecting a Project and User on Start-up

When you start Smoke, the Project Management menu appears. Use the Project Management menu to select an existing project and user for the current session, to create new projects and users, or to manage existing projects and users. You can work with projects on the current framestore or on a remote framestore. If multiple partitions are available, you can select which one to use. For information on creating partitions, see the Autodesk Stone and Wire Filesystem and Networking Guide.

To select a project and user on start-up:

1. Log in to the Smoke account and then double-click its icon on the desktop.

   After a few moments, the Project Management menu appears. The framestore, project, and user that were selected for the previous session appear in their respective boxes.

   
   

   (a) Framestore box  (b) Project box  (c)  Volume box  (d) Sort Order box  (e) User box  

2. NoteIf this is the first time you are starting Smoke, there are no existing projects (<new> is the only option), and the only user available is the default user.
3. Do one of the following:
   • To open a project from the current framestore, select a project from the Project box.
   • To open a project on a remote framestore, select the framestore from the Framestore box. If the framestore has more than one volume, select a volume from Volume box. Click Open, and then select a project from the Project box.
   NoteIf you have a long list of projects to sort through, you can use the Sort Order box and arrow to sort the projects by frame resolution, name, or creation date, in descending or ascending order.

   If you have not yet created a project for the current job, see Creating a Project.

4. From the User box, select your user profile.

   If you have not yet created a user and do not want to use the default user, see Creating and Loading a User and Sharing User Preferences.

5. Click Start.

   The project's EditDesk appears. If you try to access a Smoke project that is already open on a remote framestore, an error message appears and you are asked to confirm whether you want to go into that project's clip library.

   When the project loads, Smoke attempts to select a VTR whose timing matches that of the project. The VTR devices available depend on the VTR keyword lines uncommented in the software initialisation configuration file. If multiple VTR matches are found in the list, Smoke selects the first match. If no match is found, VTR selection reverts to "No VTR selected" with the appropriate timing. See Smoke Detection of Sync and Timing.