Lost FCP settings

I recently had to do a clean re-install of the Mac OS and FCP. Before I did that, I copied the contents of my home directory to a backup disk.
After reinstalling FCP, I find that it takes much longer to export to a .mov file than it did before -- several hours for a 15 minute video, whereas before it would take maybe half an hour. I assume some FCP settings are different than they were before.
Before I start researching the individual settings, can you please tell me where FCP stores its settings? Is there an individual file that I could copy from my backup disk that would restore all my previous settings?

FCP's preferences are stored in your home user's folder->Library->Preferences
-DH

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