Selecting playback settings, Selecting render settings – Apple Final Cut Pro 6 User Manual
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Chapter 13
Preparing to Output to Tape
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Selecting Playback Settings
When you want to output your program to video, you can choose whether to render
the effects that won’t output at full quality in real time, or output them at the reduced
quality you’ve selected in order to avoid rendering.
Playback settings can be adjusted in the Playback Control tab of System Settings, or in
the RT pop-up menu in the Timeline. For output to tape, you can choose from the
following options in the Record pop-up menu:
 Full Quality: When this is selected, video is always output to tape at the highest
quality. Areas of your sequence that won’t play back at full resolution in real time will
need to be rendered prior to output.
 Use Playback Settings: Final Cut Pro uses the selected real-time effects playback
settings when outputting your sequence to tape. If, as a result, your sequence will
output at less than full quality, you are warned of this prior to output. Outputting to
tape at low quality is useful for quickly creating sample tapes of your program when
you don’t have the time to render all necessary effects first.
Note: Final Cut Pro always warns you before outputting video to tape at reduced
quality when you use the Edit to Tape command.
Selecting Render Settings
The currently selected render quality is used to render any transitions, filters, or motion
parameters in your edited sequence, as well as any added leader or trailer elements. For
more information on render quality settings, see Volume III, Chapter 29, “Rendering and
Video Processing Settings.”
Note: Render settings can be adjusted in the Render Control tab of the current sequence.
Selecting Edit to Tape and Print to Video Preferences
If you like, turn on two preferences relating to tape and playback operations.
 Abort ETT/PTV on dropped frames: If you select this option, a message appears when
any frames are dropped during playback when outputting, and Final Cut Pro
immediately stops the operation. You can choose to redo the entire output, or you
can attempt a match frame edit to output the remaining video from where the
dropped frame occurred.
Playback drops are almost always caused by a hardware setup problem. When properly
configured, Final Cut Pro should not drop frames. For information on what you can do
if Final Cut Pro reports dropped frames, see “
 Report dropped frames during playback: If you select this option, a message appears
when any frames are dropped when outputting so you can correct the problem.
Playback drops are almost always caused by a hardware setup problem. When properly
configured, Final Cut Pro should not drop frames. For information on what you can do
if Final Cut Pro reports dropped frames, see “