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Change SYNC User Preferences

A videographer sets user preferences to make her experience in SYNC more personalized and efficient. With her settings, SYNC performs exactly the way she wants it to. For example, she doesn’t have to tell SYNC she wants to send her deposition synchronizations to inData for same day delivery every time she creates a new DVT. SYNC remembers what she wants and performs accordingly.

SYNC is also very flexible. If for some reason the videographer wants to change her preferences for one instance of creating a DVT, she can. Then the preferences will take back over the next time she creates another DVT.

The videographer accesses her preferences by clicking the SYNC User Preferences button on the SYNC Start Page.

Note: Some preferences may not appear on TrialDirector360.com.

Click on each section to expand. Current User Preferences include:

Option	Info
Default Transcript Path	The default path to the folder containing deposition text files.
Default Multimedia Path	The default path to the folder containing deposition media files.
Default Synced Transcript Path	The default path to the folder where synchronized transcripts and media are stored.
Sync Job Name Prefix	The prefix that will be applied to all future jobs.
Sync Job Name Suffix	The suffix that will be applied to all future jobs.
Job Sync Mode	The mode that will be selected when creating a new DVT: RapidSync - Synchronizes the transcript using the automated synchronization engine. Send to inData - Sends the job to be processed and quality checked at inData. Skip for Now - No action is taken on the transcript.
Auto Load Multimedia Files	Sync attempts to locate multimedia files in the same folder as the transcript.
Default Auto Complete Values to Last Entry	With this preference active, when a value is entered in a field, such any of the transcript details, the next time the Create a DVT wizard opens, the fields will be filled with the values from before.
Purchase Sync Units	Click this button to go to the Purchase Sync Units page. Sync units allow you to synchronize a deposition transcript and video as a DVT.
Auto Word Wrap	Some transcripts, like surveillance recordings, do not have a word wrap, and the transcript lines can run off the page. Activating the word wrap option formats the transcript lines for you.
Auto Word Wrap Default Length	When auto word wrap is activated, this preference sets the amount of characters per line.
Add Page/Line Numbers	This preference adds page and line numbers to the surveillance transcript.
Starting Page Number	This is the starting page number on the surveillance transcript.
Lines Per Page	This preference sets the amount of lines per page on the surveillance transcript.

Quality Control

Option	Info
Hide Quality Control	Hides the full Quality Control tab next to the Transcripts tab when a DVT is open. (Selected by default)
Hide Hotkey tab	Hides the Hotkeys tab in the Tools panel of the Quality Control tab. (Not selected by default)
Show as default tool tab	Select the tab in the Tools panel in Quality Control that appears by default.
Show full transcript in Quality Control tab	Checking this box shows the full transcript with flagged timecodes highlighted instead of showing each flagged timecode with contextual lines surrounding it in a "potential error block". Navigating the flagged timecodes remains unchanged. For example, using the up and down arrow keys to select flagged timecodes still applies.
View transcript in transcript viewer after Quality Control is completed.	With this preference activated, once the Complete QC button is clicked in the Quality Control tab, the DVT appears in the Transcript tab.
Show Highlight Bar	When selected, this option shows a highlight bar that scrolls along with the video as it plays.
Number of surrounding lines to display around Quality Control issue for context	Defines the number of lines shown before and after the line in question in a "potential error block".
Arrow keys seek increments	Defines the number seconds the media seeks backward or forward each time the left or right arrow key is pressed.
Default multimedia playback speed	The default playback speed for the multimedia player can be set with this slider instead of having to change it every time a new video is loaded.

Note: If the videographer makes changes to the Quality Control preferences, she is required to close and then re-open the DVT before any changes are applied.

Option	Info
Number of recent jobs to list	Sets the number of jobs viewable in the Recent Jobs section on the SYNC Start Page.
Display the following buttons on the SYNC Start Page	Un-checking any of the boxes hides the corresponding button on the SYNC Start Page.
Automatically download outsourced DVT	Checking this box will automatically download completed synchronization jobs that were sent to inData.

Option	Info
Hide Hotkey tab	Hides the Hot Key tab in the Tools panel of the Transcripts tab.
Seek to previous line when using Enter key in Manual Sync mode	With this preference selected, while in Manual Sync mode, when pressing the Enter key, the video will seek to the line immediately preceding the line currently selected in the transcript.
Seek to previous line when using single left click in Manual Sync mode	With this preference selected, while in Manual Sync mode, when clicking the left mouse button, the video will seek to the line immediately preceding the line currently selected in the transcript.
Number of lines in Transcript Scrolling Highlight	Sets the number of lines the Transcript Scrolling Highlight covers when viewing a transcript in the Transcripts tab.
Transcript Scrolling Highlight Color	Changes the color of the highlight bar in the transcript view.

Option	Info
Automatically copy multimedia to destination folder: Publish with multimedia	With this preference selected, when SYNC publishes a transcript, the multimedia files are generated along with the transcript file. Note: This preference has no effect on DepoView Volume or DepoView for iPad output formats.
Browse once publish is completed: Browse completed published DVT	When the DVT publish process is complete, the file explorer will open the file path destination.
Select default output formats	Selecting any of these options will automatically select the following publish options in the Publish DVT dialog: DepoView Volume TrialDirector 6.x DepoView for iPad Open DVT (XML) Text (TXT)

Change SYNC User Preferences

Click on each section to expand. Current User Preferences include:

Start Page

Transcript

Create DVT

Quality Control

Publish DVT

Job History

Job Tracking

Option	Info
Show the following columns in the Job Summary	Un-checking any of these options hides the corresponding column in the Job Summary panel of the Job History tab.