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The project is combination of a project template, a work order, and a project history. In order to kill two birds with one stone, the following chapter will describe the project and the User interface used to edit and view the Project.  
 
A project is created by choosing settings on the property pages. This project can be saved using any file name you like. In this way you are using the project as a template. When saving the project, you will notice that the Project ID was suggested as the base part of the project file name. When the project is run, a project file is saved to the default project file directory, using the Project ID as the base name with a "prj" extension. Note: the automatically saved project file is the same as the filename suggested when saving a project. This means that the automatically saved project file will overwrite/update the project file previously saved with that name. [In addition to this, at the completion of each stage, the project file is written to the default project directory. This is useful if a failure ever occurs, because then the project file written can be opened and the project can often be resumed and completed.] Finally, there is project execution data written to the automatically saved project file such as the number of chapters, the actual chapter points, capture time and number of frames captured. Without this information, a project cannot be started beginning at the authoring stage. A previously executed project should have all this data stored in the project file which should allow the project to be rerun beginning at any stage. Finally, if the work/capture directories are moved to another drive for storage, stages of the project can be re-run by simply opening the completed project file and changing the work/capture directories to match the current location of the work/capture directories.  
 
For your convenience, the application has provisions for changing some of the most commonly changed settings from the front panel without having to open the project property page dialog box.