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[theskyhound]

The Scheduler has to know what you want to do. It needs to know what your exposure goals are, how you want to compose the shot, your binning and gain choices, etc. That's what the project is for. So yes you need to make a project first. The scheduler schedules projects rather than targets. I mean, you would have to enter all that information regardless, right? The project also serves as an archive of what you did, and keeps track of progress if you are doing a long term project, such as many hours over multiple nights.

It's not difficult or time consuming to create a project, and if you are doing the same thing over and over there are ways to take advantage of that to make it even quicker and easier.

I'm not following you with respect to your question about export and import. I can help best if you take a moment to explain more about what projects you are doing. Then I can tell you how best to go about getting your images.