Quicktime Conversion - Save previous settings?

On several of our Final Cut systems - When we export using quicktime conversion and then close out of Quicktime, it defaults back to H.264 and mono audio. Any easy way to get the system to save certain settings?
Thanks!

I'd also suggest you look carefully at your workflow construction. I don't know your needs or why you've ended up with your processes, they may suit your situation perfectly.
If your shop is anything like mine, ad hoc processes tend to become standard operating procedures because no one has bothered to evaluate it objectively. Worse, in my shop, out old ways of doing things fail to get updated when technologies change.
Example: Exchanging video clips with my partner used to be done by logging onto his computer over the network and dropping files into his drop box. What we do now is export out of FCP to server and then go pick them up from the server. Thsi does two things. It deliberately slows things down so fewer mistakes are made and it leaves a copy of the file on the server so anyone can find it later.
bogiesan

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