Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1819)

General Tab
This tab contains fundamental preferences relating to application launch, creation of new
projects and sequences, and automatically scheduled events such as Autosave and Auto
Render.
The General tab is open
by default.
About Audio Playback Quality
Sample rate conversion occurs when you use clips with audio sample rates that differ from
the sample rate in your sequence’s settings. If the sample rate of your media files matches
the sample rate of the sequence, this pop-up menu has no effect.
Transitions between rendered and nonrendered portions of audio clips are also affected
by the quality setting chosen in the Audio Playback Quality pop-up menu. For example,
if you choose Low quality and you play a partially rendered clip that contains a reverb,
you won’t hear the tail of the reverb when the playhead crosses the boundary from a
rendered to a nonrendered section of the sequence. However, if you choose Medium or
High quality, you hear the reverb even when crossing the render boundary.
Undo and Recent Clips Options
• Levels of Undo: Enter a value to specify the number of actions that can be undone. The
maximum number of Undo levels you can specify is 99. The default is 10. For information
on undoing an action, see
“Overview of the Final Cut Pro Interface.”
• List Recent Clips: This value determines how many clip names appear in the Recent
Clips pop-up menu in the Viewer. This pop-up menu shows a list of clips that you
opened from the Browser, in the order they were opened (with the most recently
opened clip at the top of the list). The default is 10 clips, and the maximum is 20. For
more information on using the Viewer’s Recent Clips pop-up menu, see
“Viewer Basics.”
1819 Chapter 111 Choosing Settings and Preferences