Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1345)

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Render Settings
 Frame Rate: You can use this pop-up menu to reduce the frame rate of rendered
effects, dramatically speeding up rendering at the expense of lowering playback
quality. For example, if you’re editing at 29.97 fps, and you choose 50 percent in the
Frame Rate pop-up menu, rendered effects in your sequence will play back at 15
frames per second.
 Resolution: Choose a percentage from this pop-up menu to reduce the resolution of
rendered effects, speeding up rendering at the expense of lowering playback quality.
For example, if you’re editing with a frame size of 720 x 480, choosing 50 percent
lowers the resolution of rendered effects to a non-interlaced 360 x 240. Rendered
effects play back at full frame size despite having lower resolution; however, they
look less sharp and are non-interlaced.
Important: These options don’t affect real-time playback. To change the frame rate and
resolution of video playback, use the RT pop-up menu instead. For more information, see
“
Settings and Options in the RT Pop-Up Menu and Playback Control Tab ” on page 523.
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Tip: Many of these settings can also be assigned to keyboard shortcuts or buttons on
the button bar using the Keyboard Layout window, if you need to make frequent
changes. For more information, see Volume I, Chapter 10, “Customizing the Interface.”
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 Pro > 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.