Apple Final Cut Pro 5 User Manual
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Chapter 22
Choosing Settings and Preferences
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Interface Options
 Show Tooltips: Select this option to automatically display descriptions of interface
elements and their corresponding keyboard shortcuts, called tooltips. Tooltips appear
in small yellow boxes when you move the pointer over a control and pause briefly
(without clicking the control). When you move the pointer away from the control, the
tooltip disappears.
 Bring all windows to the front on activation: When this option is selected and
Final Cut Pro is in the background, clicking one Final Cut Pro window brings all
Final Cut Pro windows to the front at once.
 Open last project on application launch: This option determines whether Final Cut Pro
launches with a new, untitled project, or the last project or projects that were open
when you last quit the application.
Autosave Options
 Autosave Vault: The Autosave option saves a copy of each open project at regular
intervals. For more information, see “
New Project and Sequence Options
 Prompt for settings on New Project: When this option is selected, the Project
Properties dialog appears when you create a new project. For more information
about setting project properties, see Volume II, Chapter 5, “Working With Projects,
Clips, and Sequences.”
 Prompt for settings on New Sequence: When this option is selected, a dialog appears
asking you to choose a sequence preset whenever you create a new sequence. This
can be useful if you regularly work with several different video formats. If you always
edit the same video format, you’ll probably want to deselect this option.
The tooltip (interface element
and keyboard shortcut) that
appears when you place the
pointer over the Play button
in the Viewer.