VPT's prefs.txt text file sets startup behaviour: framerate, screens, source bank and autostart

VPT exposes startup preferences through a plain-text prefs.txt in the project folder, edited in any text editor before launch — you change only the values, never the message keywords. Key entries include framerate (default 30 fps), previewframerate (default 15 fps), number_of_screens (up to 3 with a Matrox TripleHead2Go), screenratio, fullscreen (start fullscreen), autostart (a preset or cue to launch unattended), include_sources (bundle sources in VPT presets), autosource (auto-create a matching source preset), xfadelocal (use each source’s own crossfade instead of the cuelist’s) and sourcebank (eight V/H/S/M codes setting the module type of each of the 8 source slots). These are the settings you tune for an installation that must start and run without an operator.

Examples

For an unattended kiosk that boots straight into preset 1 fullscreen, set ‘fullscreen 1’ and ‘autostart preset 1’ in prefs.txt.

Assessment

Name three prefs.txt settings relevant to an install that must start unattended at a set preset. What does ‘sourcebank’ control, and give a value for 4 video + 4 still sources.