Apple Final Cut Pro HD (4.5): New Features - Manual (Page 20)

20 Preface New Features in Final Cut Pro HD
New location for locked presets
Presets are stored with the Easy Setup they are used with. If you want to lock a preset
that you’ve created, you can make a custom Easy Setup and store it in the folder where
locked Easy Setups are located. To lock a preset that you’ve created as part of a custom
Easy Setup, drag your custom Easy Setup from
/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Custom Settings
to
/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins.
Note: You must quit Final Cut Pro and reopen the application for the preset to appear
locked in one of the preset tabs in the Audio/Video Settings window.
Real-Time and Rendering
Unlimited RT
Selecting the Unlimited RT option in the RT pop-up menu of the Timeline allows
Final Cut Pro to play additional real-time effects that exceed your computer’s real-time
playback capabilities. Unrestricted real-time playback allows you play more effects, but
increases the likelihood that your sequence will drop frames during playback. This
mode is useful for getting a real-time preview of complex effects compositions.
RT pop-up menu in the Timeline
The Real-Time Effects (RT) pop-up menu allows you to adjust the playback quality of
real-time effects in Final Cut Pro. Using the options in this menu, you can decide which
is more important to you–visual playback quality or maximizing the available effects
that can be played back in real time.
For example, if it’s more important to you to be able to view your program at the
highest quality, you should deselect the Unlimited RT option and select the High
playback option in this menu. This ensures that your program’s video quality is always
as high as possible, and that no frames are dropped during playback. The tradeoff in
this case is that the number of simultaneous real-time effects that can be played back
is reduced.
If you’d rather lower the playback quality of your video in order to increase the number
of real-time effects that can be played back, you can select the Unlimited RT and Low
playback quality options to maximize your computer’s playback performance.
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.
Final Cut Pro always warns you before outputting video to tape at reduced quality
when you use the Print to Video and Edit to Tape commands.
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