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Preferencesandmetadataoverview
In Final Cut Pro, you can modify preference settings to specify how your source media is
imported into the application, how your clips play back, and how you edit your clips in
the Timeline.
You can also view and change the information associated with a clip, referred to as a clip’s
metadata. Metadata includes information about a clip’s source media les as well as information
you add to a clip, such as notes. For more information, see Display and change clip metadata on
page 432.
FinalCutPropreferences
Change preference settings
A preference modies how a particular Final Cut Pro feature behaves. Most preference settings
can be turned on or o at any time. The following sections describe Final Cut Pro preferences
in detail.
Open Final Cut Pro preferences
m Choose Final Cut Pro > Preferences (or press Command-Comma), and click a pane’s button at the
top of the window to open it.
Copy Final Cut Pro preferences between computers
You can copy Final Cut Pro preference settings to another Mac that has Final Cut Pro installed so
that the settings are the same on both computers.
1 Find the preference settings le in the following location:
/Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.FinalCut.plist
2 Copy the preference settings le to the same location on another Mac.
If necessary, overwrite any existing version of the le at that location.
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