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Media Composer Interface Tips

The document provides guidance on customizing interface settings in Media Composer, highlighting changes in recent versions and a bug related to interface brightness. It outlines steps to modify settings and emphasizes the ability to adjust font sizes in various windows due to increased screen resolutions. Users are encouraged to experiment with these settings for a better work environment.

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Media Composer Interface Tips

The document provides guidance on customizing interface settings in Media Composer, highlighting changes in recent versions and a bug related to interface brightness. It outlines steps to modify settings and emphasizes the ability to adjust font sizes in various windows due to increased screen resolutions. Users are encouraged to experiment with these settings for a better work environment.

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Customizing Your Work Environment

Interface settings
Interface settings are not a difficult area to experiment with on your own, but I wanted to
make sure to mention them so you'll check them out, as they've changed a bit over the
last several releases.

Further, if you happen to be using a version of Media Composer released before version 6,
there is a programming bug to be aware of—if you set your interface brightness to its lightest/
brightest level, then you may find that the columns in your Effect Palette display as black.
The fix for this is simply to set your interface brightness to one level darker.

How to do it...
To customize Interface settings, perform the following steps:

1. Go to the Project window, select the Settings tab, and double-click on Interface.
2. Modify the settings as desired. You can test them out before committing to them by
clicking on the Apply button.
3. See earlier in this chapter for more information about duplicating, deleting, restoring,
and naming settings. If you have multiple Interface settings by default, or if you have
created more, then only one of them will have a small check mark just to the left of it.
The one with the check mark is the one that is active and is telling Media Composer
how to look. You can change which alternate setting is active by clicking to the left of
it. This will move the check mark and put that setting into action.

Font size adjustment


As computer screens have increased in resolution, icons and fonts have decreased in size.
Personally, I find that the default font sizes are too small in most of Media Composer's
windows and tools (even for some with younger eyes than mine).

As of this writing, it's possible to change the font display only at the following locations:

ff The Project Window


ff The Composer Window (also known as the Source/Record Window)
ff Timeline Views
ff Bins (also see the section titled Additional Bin Font Programming later in
this chapter)
ff The Effect Editor window (for this, see the section titled Effect Editor font
size later in this chapter)

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