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Projects
Topics in this chapter:
About Projects on page 95
Example Workflows on page 97
Setting Project Preferences on page 97
Archiving or Restoring on page 104
About Projects
Projects allow users to keep a part of their preferences separately, in order to
better accommodate separation of the work in multiple sub-tasks. For example,
a common way of using projects would be to have one project per special-effects
shot in a film. To this end, one would want, for example, to specify render
directories that will differ from one shot to the other, without having to re-type
them for every composition used within this shot. This is the kind of service
that project management is intended for. By comparison, the User Preferences
are more geared towards controlling the behavior of the user interface.
By default, project management is turned off in Composite, but can be enabled
by visiting the User Preferences (Edit->User Preferences). In the tab labeled
General, enable the Project Selection Dialog setting and click OK or Apply at
the bottom right. The project selection will be enabled for the next time you
start the application.
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