Apple Final Cut Pro HD (4.5): New Features - Manual (Page 22)

22 Preface New Features in Final Cut Pro HD
Real-time effects playback and rendering options
Three new tabs allow you to control real-time effects playback and rendering in
your projects:
• The Render Control tab in the User Preferences window allows you to enable and
disable the most processor-intensive effects in Final Cut Pro. Changing the settings in
the Render Control tab of the User Preferences window changes the default Render
Control options that all new sequences are created with. To change the Render
Control settings for existing sequences, alter these settings in your sequence’s
Sequence Settings window.
• All settings in the Playback Control tab in the System Settings window remain the
same for all sequences and projects opened on that computer. These settings also
appear in the RT pop-up menu in the Timeline. Using these settings, 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.
• The Effect Handling tab in the System Settings window allows you to set how real-
time effects are processed for clips compressed using a real-time-capable codec. This
includes clips captured and compressed using the DV, DVCPRO50, and Photo JPEG
codecs. Such clips, by default, can play back software-based real-time effects applied
directly in Final Cut Pro. If a third-party capture card capable of real-time effects
processing is installed that can process these codecs, you can reassign real-time
effects handling to your hardware, instead.
Auto-rendering
The Auto Render preference allows you to take advantage of idle computer time when
you’re not editing–such as during a coffee break or lunch–to render open sequences in
the Timeline. Options in the General tab of the User Preferences window allow you to
define how long to wait before rendering, which sequences to render, and whether or
not to render real-time effects in the selected sequences.
Support for 10-bit video processing
Final Cut Pro now supports 10-bit video processing for selected filters and transitions.
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