Setting Project Preferences

Studio 10 offers several sophisticated preferences that require consideration before you begin editing. These range from how your projects are saved, to using Studio's new dual-monitor capabilities to electing whether to use background rendering and choosing a format. I know this stuff is boring, and you're itching to get started with your first video project, but bear with me on this; I think you'll find it worthwhile.

We'll start with your project preferences.

To open the project preferences dialog box

• From the Studio menu, choose Setup > Project Preferences (Figure 2.40).
  
  

  Figure 2.40. Choose Setup > Project Preferences to access basic editing default settings.

  

  
  The Pinnacle Studio Setup Options dialog box appears, open to the Project Preferences tab (Figure 2.41).
  
  

  Figure 2.41. Here are your project preferences. We'll start by discussing the top preference in the editing environment category, which relates to how you save your files.