When you start Smoke, the Project Management menu appears. Use the Project Management menu to select a project and user for the current session, to create 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 volumes are available, you can select which one to use. For information on creating volumes, see the Autodesk Stone and Wire Filesystem and Networking Guide.

To select a project and user on start-up:

1. Start the Smoke application.

   The Project Management menu appears, displaying the framestore, project, and user from the previous session.

   
   

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

   NoteIf this is the first time you are starting Smoke, there are no existing projects or users.
2. Do one of the following:
   • To open a project on 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 the Volume box. Click Open, and then select a project from the Project box.
   NoteIf you have a long list of projects, 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.

3. Select a user from the User box. If you opened a project on a remote framestore, you can use the Host box to select a user on the remote framestore or on your local framestore.

   If you have not yet created a user, see Creating User Profiles.

4. 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.