Creating new projects and opening recent projects on startup
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<title>The welcome dialog</title>
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<p>When you launch <app>Pitivi</app>, a startup assistant appears, allowing you to create a new project or open an existing project in a few clicks. If you want to skip this dialog, press the <gui><key>Escape</key></gui> key on your keyboard or click the window's close button.</p>
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<p>When you launch <app>Pitivi</app>, a startup assistant appears, allowing you to create a new project or open an existing project in a few clicks. If you want to skip this dialog, press the <key>Escape</key> key on your keyboard or click the window's close button. Skipping the dialog will open a new project with default settings.</p>
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<p>The dialog offers you projects that are found among the recently used files. Double-click one of them to load it or use one of the following buttons:</p>
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<item><p><gui>New</gui> opens the <gui>Project settings</gui> dialog for a new project.</p></item>
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<item><p><gui>Browse projects...</gui> opens file chooser in the last used directory.</p></item>
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<item><p><gui>Help</gui> opens the user documenation on the index page.</p></item>
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<item><p><gui>Keyboard shortcuts</gui> opens the user documentation on the Keyboard shortcuts and cheatsheet page.</p></item>
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<note style="tip">
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<p>By right-clicking the individual projects offered by the <gui>Welcome dialog</gui> you can get more options: copy project's location, remove project from the list, clear the list, or show private resources.</p>