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To alter project settings:
1 Click on the name of any group of settings in the sidebar at the left to open that panel.
2 Change whatever settings you need to change.
3 Do one of the following to apply your changes:
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Click Save to apply the changes you’ve made and close the Project Settings.
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Option-click Save to apply the changes you’ve made and keep the Project Settings
window open, so you can make other changes. This option is available because it’s
sometimes necessary to keep the Project Settings window open as you continue
making changes that may visibly affect the clips and timelines in your project.
Presets
The Presets panel lets you save customized collections of Project Settings for future recall.
Presets can save the state of nearly every parameter and setting in every panel of the Project
Settings window, and make it easy to switch among different setups for different tasks, or to
accommodate different types of projects.
There are three default items in the Presets list:
 Current Project: The current project’s settings. If you load a preset, the current project
becomes selected, showing that the preset you loaded has been applied to the
currentproject.
 System Config: The System Config contains the default Project Settings that are
used for all new projects that you create, and consists of the installed defaults that
accompanied DaVinci Resolve. This config is uneditable, but you can use the Save As
button to duplicate it as the basis for a new preset.
 Guest default config: This setting is a holdover from previous versions of
DaVinci Resolve that had multi-user support. The default configuration for all new
projects created by the currently logged in user. The actual name of this config reflects
the current user name. This config can no longer be altered.
If you like, you can create your own presets, adding as many as you need to accommodate the
types of projects you work on.
To create a new preset:
1 Do one of the following:
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Right-click a project in the Project Manager, and choose Project Settings from the
contextual menu.
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Open any project, then open the Project Settings, and select the Presets panel.
2 Select any config in the Presets list that you want to use as the starting point of a new
project preset, and click Save As.
3 Enter a name for the new preset you’re creating into the Preset Name dialog, and
clickOK. A new preset should now appear in the Presets list.
4 Select the new preset you’ve just created.
5 Now, use the different panels of the Project Settings window to alter whichever settings
you need to. There’s no need to save your changes as you go, you’ll save them all at
once later.
6 When you’re finished customizing the Project Settings, reopen the Presets panel and
click Save. Your new preset is updated with the new settings you’ve chosen.
Once you’ve created one or more custom presets, you can load them into a project at any time.
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