User Manual

CHAPTER
15
1 The Digital Performer Project
OVERVIEW
This chapter reviews basic procedures for handling
Digital Performer projects. Most are standard File
menu procedures; however, Digital Performer is in
some ways unique in how it manages projects and
their many associated files.
Components of a DP Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Creating a new project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Creating a new project with Create Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Creating a new project from a template . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Opening an existing project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Open Recent sub-menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Saving a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Saving a project file under a different name . . . . . . . . . 17
Save a Copy As. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using Save a Copy As for incremental backups . . . . . . 18
Autosave. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Collecting a project for backup or transfer . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Avoiding disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Importing files in other formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Exporting a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Moving a project between Mac and Windows . . . . . . . 19
Interchanging with Final Cut Pro XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Reverting to a previously saved project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Creating project templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Loading a sequence, song or V-Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Adding project notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Printing project windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Closing a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Quitting/Exiting Digital Performer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Setting Digital Performer’s startup preferences. . . . . . 24
Helpful project and disk hints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
COMPONENTS OF A DP PROJECT
A typical Digital Performer project consists of the
following components:
Figure 1-1: The components of an example Digital Performer project.
Project
Folder
Project
document