General

The General systems preferences section is a collection of miscellaneous settings that do not warrant their own category.

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.

DPX 10-bit image processing:

This option describes how 10-bit DPX files will be transformed for image-processing tasks. The options are: Printing Density, Logarithmic, Linear or ADX and a suitable option can be chosen for your input media. Alternatively the default From file header will attempt to examine the DPX file header to determine the transfer characteristic of the image data automatically.

DPX 16-bit image processing:

This option describes how 16-bit DPX files will be transformed for image-processing tasks. The options are: Printing Density, Logarithmic, Linear or ADX and a suitable option can be chosen for your input media. Alternatively the default From file header will attempt to examine the DPX file header to determine the transfer characteristic of the image data automatically.

Cineon image processing:

This option describes how 10-bit DPX files will be transformed for image-processing tasks. The options are: Logarithmic or Linear and a suitable option should be chosen for your input media.

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.

Prevent sleep whilst background processing:

This this option is only available on macOS and Windows, and will prevent your computer from entering a sleep state and shutting down GPU/disks whilst background processing (including caching, exports and clip cutting).