Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 893)

Chapter 60 Rendering 893
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Changing Render Options for Sequences
If you change the render control options for new or existing sequences, you will affect
real-time playback, rendering, video output, and export quality to QuickTime movie files.
To change the default Render Control options for all new sequences:
1 Choose Final Cut Express HD > User Preferences
2 Click the Render Control tab.
3 Select the settings you want, then click OK.
The selected settings in the Render Control tab of the User Preferences window are
applied to all new sequences you create.
To change the Render Control settings in an existing sequence:
1 Open the sequence settings for a particular sequence by doing one of the following:
 Control-click a sequence in the Browser, then choose Settings from the shortcut menu.
 Select a sequence in the Browser or Timeline, then choose Sequence > Settings.
2 Click the Render Control tab.
3 Select the settings you want, then click OK.
The new settings are applied to the selected sequence.
Preserving Render Files
When you make changes to effects, composited media, and other edits that have
already been rendered, the render file for the affected item is no longer valid.
 If the project has been saved with the render file, the render file is deleted when
whichever of the following happens later:
 The project is saved again.
 The change falls off the “Undo queue” (the series of changes that can be reversed
with the Undo command in the Edit menu).
 If the project has not been saved since the render file was created, the render file is
deleted when the new change falls off the Undo queue.
Note: You can keep your important render files by nesting sequences (see the
next section).