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Project settings affect your entire project, not just one composition. This is where you control things like color depth and working color space — stuff that matters for the final output.
At the top, go File → Project Settings (or just press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+K (Windows) / Command+Option+Shift+K (Mac)).
A window will appear with several tabs.
Under Color settings, you can pick your working color space. For most people starting out, leave it at Rec.709 Gamma 2.4 — it’s the standard and it works.
The other thing worth knowing is the Video Rendering and Effects tab, where you pick your rendering engine. Mercury GPU Acceleration is the default and it’s faster if your graphics card supports it.
You’re good to go. Most projects don’t need anything else tweaked here.
If colors ever look weird after you export, come back to Project Settings → Color and double-check that your color space matches your output. That’s usually the culprit.
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