Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 885)

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Commands for Rendering Effects
Three submenus contain commands to control which effects are rendered in one or
more selected sequences or clips. Which render commands you should use depends on
the scope of the rendering operation you wish to perform.
Each of these rendering commands relies upon the settings in the Render Control tab
in the Sequence Settings window to control the quality and speed of the render cache
files created. Rendering effects with a Frame Rate or Resolution lower than 100 percent
quality, or with Filters, Frame Blending, and Motion Blur deselected, creates low-
resolution render files; these are useful for fast previews of your effects, but unsuitable
for final output of your program to tape.
Render Selection Submenu
If you’ve selected one or more items in the Timeline, or defined a region of the Timeline
using In and Out points, these rendering commands operate only on the selected
regions. If nothing is selected and no In or Out points have been defined, the entire
Timeline is rendered.
 Both: Renders both the video and audio of the selected region of the sequence.
Several menu items representing each video and audio Timeline playback state
appear underneath. Selecting and deselecting specific render states allow you to
control which clips are rendered (selected menu items appear checked). For example,
you can set up the Render command to render only the effects in your sequence that
won’t play in real time, skipping all the real-time effects to save you time.
 Video: Renders only the video items in the selected region of the sequence. Six
menu items appear underneath, corresponding to each of the Timeline playback
states. Only clips with one of the selected Timeline playback states (appearing
checked) are rendered.
 Audio: Renders only the audio items in the selected region of the sequence. Select
one or both of the options that appear below to choose which audio items will be
rendered; audio items appearing with red render bars, and/or item-level rendering
for clips that need to be resampled or that have filters applied.