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Note: When creating an effect, title, transition, or generator template for use in
Final Cut Pro, the Field Rendering setting in the View pop-up menu does not control
whether field rendering is applied in Final Cut Pro. Rather, field rendering is controlled
in the Properties Inspector for the project. (Press Command-J to open the Properties
Inspector.) When Field Order is set to anything other than None, field rendering is used
in Final Cut Pro, regardless of the Field Rendering status in the View pop-up menu.
• Frame Blending: Enables/disables frame blending in the Canvas. Frame blending can
smooth the appearance of video frames by interpolating the pixels between adjacent
frames to create a smoother transition.
View and Overlay pop-up menu: The View and Overlay pop-up menu provides access
to the guides and controls that can be viewed in the Canvas. When an option is active,
a checkmark appears beside the menu item.
Note: Many of these options are also available in the View pull-down menu.
The View and Overlay pop-up menu displays the following options:
• Show Overlays: Turns the display of overlays in the Canvas on or off. This setting must
be on to view any other overlay items (grids, guides, and so on). To turn the camera
overlays on or off, use Show 3D Overlays.
Note: You can also press Command-Slash (/).
• Rulers: Turns display of the rulers along the edge of the Canvas on or off. You can
specify where the rulers appear in the Canvas section (Alignment) of Motion Preferences.
For more information on using rulers, see Canvas Rulers.
Note: You can also press Command-Shift-R.
• Grid: Turns a grid display on and off over the Canvas. You can set the spacing and color
of the grid in the Canvas section (Alignment) of Motion Preferences.
Note: You can also press Command-Apostrophe (’).
• Guides: Turns display of manually created guides on and off. Guides can only be created
if rulers are displayed. You can change the color of the guides in the Canvas pane
(Alignment) of Motion Preferences.
Note: You can also press Command-Semicolon (;).
• Dynamic Guides: Turns display of automatic dynamic guides on and off. These guides
appear when dragging a layer past edges of other layers when snapping is enabled
(choose View > Snap). You can change the color of dynamic guides in the Canvas pane
(Alignment) of Motion Preferences.
Note: You can also press Command-Shift-Colon (:).
• Safe Zones: Turns display of the title safe and action safe guides on and off. By default,
these guides are set at 80% and 90%. You can change these settings and the color of
the guides in the Canvas pane (Zones) of Motion Preferences.
Note: You can also press the Apostrophe key (’).
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