Apple LiveType 2 User Manual
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Chapter 2
Setting Up a Project
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These settings in this area allow you to configure the quality of three different items:
 Canvas: A RAM preview in the Canvas
 Movie Render: A full movie render
 Preview: A standard preview accessed via the File menu
How you preview your movie depends on where you are in the design process. You
may find yourself changing these settings several times as you design your titles,
particularly if it’s a complex composition that takes considerable time to render.
A Wireframe preview, which displays rectangular bounding boxes representing each
character, renders very quickly. When you’re focusing on the motion of your Canvas
elements, not their visual attributes, previewing in Wireframe mode is highly efficient.
The Wireframe, Draft, and Normal settings render your project at increasing
resolution levels.
Background Settings
These settings allow you to select a Canvas color and its opacity level.
 Color: This allows you to choose a background color in the Canvas.
 Opacity: This setting reflects the opacity of the color selected above. An opacity level
of 0 equates to no background color, and the Canvas shows the checkerboard
pattern indicating a transparent background.
 Render Background: When this checkbox is selected, any background color, as well as
other background elements, render in previews or final movies.
Important:
The Render Background checkbox applies to all elements that fall below
the background bar in the Timeline, as well as the background color, which is not
represented in the Timeline. If the checkbox is not selected, the background color
and other background elements are not rendered in previews or final movie renders.
For more information, see Chapter 3, “
presents a complete explanation of working with backgrounds in LiveType.
Ruler and Grid Settings
You can display or hide the Canvas rulers and grid, and set the space between gridlines
at the bottom of the Project Properties dialog. See “
page 17 for more about the rulers and grid.
The gridline frequency, or grid
width, is set in the Project
Properties dialog.