Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 409)

74 Part II Rough Editing
Working With Projects
Before you can even capture media, import clips into your project, and edit the clips
into one or more sequences, you need a project in which to do all of this.
Note: Creating, opening, and closing projects is described in Volume I, Chapter 3,
“Understanding Projects, Clips, and Sequences.”
Working With Multiple Projects in the Browser
You can have multiple projects open in Final Cut Pro at the same time. Each project
opens in a separate tab in the Browser.
Important: Master-affiliate clip relationships don’t span multiple projects, so clips and
sequences dragged or pasted from other projects lose their master-affiliate
relationships.
Choosing Whether the Last Previously Opened Project
Opens on Launch
By default, Final Cut Pro opens the last previously open project file (or files) when
opened. You can select whether Final Cut Pro opens with the last open project or an
empty project.
To start with a default, empty project instead of the last previously open
project file:
1 Choose Final Cut Pro > User Preferences, then click the General tab.
2 Deselect the “Open last project on application launch” checkbox.
For more information, see Volume IV, Chapter 22, “Choosing Settings and Preferences.”