Customizing Your Work Environment

More color selections

When selecting colors for your Timeline tracks or background, you can expand your choices
beyond what the Media Composer palette gives you. Perform the following steps:

1. Hold down option/Alt.

2. Go to the Timeline Window's Fast Menu and select Track Color or
Background Color.
3. The Media Composer color palette appears.
4. Select any color from the palette.
5. The custom color picker associated with your computer's operating system will open.
6. Create a custom color.
7. Click on OK.

See also
ff The Settings overview discussion for more information about activating, naming,
duplicating, deleting, and restoring settings.
ff The Font size adjustment recipe
ff The Mapping buttons and menu selections recipe
ff The Keyboard mapping ideas section
ff The Activating alternate settings section

Customizing Workspaces
Prior to Media Composer Version 6, the software included both Workspaces and Toolsets.
They accomplished the same thing, but were set up by the user in different ways. In version
6, the old Workspaces feature and the Toolsets feature were essentially combined and simply
named as Workspaces. With that out of the way, let's discuss what they are.

Workspaces are a task-focused feature which you create so that, with just a visit to a menu
or a quick push of a button you can instantly reveal the tools and windows you need for a
particular type of work. For example, you go to Windows | Workspaces | Audio Editing. After
selecting Audio Editing, your Source/Record window instantly reduces in size, the timeline
expands taller, the Audio Tool opens, the Audio Mixer opens, and the Audio Suite opens.
Not only do these windows change size and the tools open, but they are then placed on your
screen(s) exactly where you like them. Again, this all happens because you set it up that way.

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