The effect of things you do in Transcribe! can be global, transcription-wide, or view-specific.
Global options change the behaviour of the program Transcribe! globally irrespective of what transcription you are working on. Global options are saved between sessions as your preferences. Examples include :
Transcription-Wide edits change the content of the active transcription but do not affect other transcriptions. If you have multiple views of a single transcription on-screen then all these views will be affected. Transcription-wide edits are saved in the "XSC" transcription file. Examples include :
View-Specific changes affect the active view only, without affecting other views of the same transcription. Examples include :
For a long time it was the case that Transcribe! did not save such things between sessions, but this has changed starting with version 5.80, for the further enhancement of your transcribing experience. The situation now is that these things are saved in the "XSC" transcription file whenever you do a Save, and if you have multiple views of the transcription then it is the settings from the frontmost view which are saved. However, making changes to these things does not cause Transcribe! to consider the transcription as "changed" - if you load up a transcription and scroll to view a different part then the "changed" mark will not appear in the titlebar of the window, and when you close it you will not be asked whether to save changes. If you want the transcription to return to this new point next time you open it then you must save it before you close it.
There are various options in Transcribe! which cannot be set globally, for
which you always get default values when you start a brand-new transcription
of a sound file. These include, for instance, pitch and speed settings, EQ
filter settings, and the "local" function key settings (from F5 upwards).
However if you frequently want the same settings for some of these things
then you can achieve this by use of a "template" transcription (XSC) file.
This is a perfectly ordinary XSC file from Transcribe!'s point of view, the
difference is just in the way you use it.
The idea is to create and save a transcription file (of any convenient
sound file - doesn't matter) with the settings you want and then when you
start a transcription of a new sound file you load this "template"
transcription file and use the "Reload Sound File" command to insert
the new sound file. Then "save as" to give the new transcription a
suitable name. This will have the desired effect. It might be a good
idea to make the template file "read-only" once it's right, to prevent
accidentally overwriting it.