General
The General systems preferences section is a collection of miscellaneous settings that do not warrant their own category.
Offline documentation path:
This option can be used to specify the location of any installed offline documentation. When installed, this will be used in place of the online documentation.
Assign clip format standard:
The method to determine the format standard of a clip. Options are:
Using metadata: PFClean will attempt to determine the clip's format standard from available metadata in the file headers.
Manually: No attempt will be made to determine the format standard, which can be assigned manually by the user.
Default value: Using metadata.
New QuickTime files start at frame 1:
When selected, newly imported Quicktime files will set the frame number for the first frame to 1, otherwise the first frame will be set to number 0.
Default value: selected, so QuickTime frame numbers start at 1.
Make footage filenames relative to project:
When selected, the path the project stores to the footage is made relative to the project itself. Else an absolute path is stored.
Relative paths can help in making the project more transferable between machines.
Default value: not selected.
Split clip sequences at missing frames:
When selected, image sequences with non-consecutive frame numbers will be considered separate clips.
For example, a directory on disk contains image files for frames 0-100 and 105-200. This could either represent a single image sequence where frames 101-104 are currently missing (but they maybe present at some point in the future), or it could be 2 separate, independent image sequences. This setting controls how the application deals with this ambiguity.
Default value: not selected, i.e. treated as a single image sequence with missing frames.