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Settings
The Settings section of the Preview Render dialog includes three buttons that determine the
overall quality and appearance of your Flipbook Preview. These buttons also have a significant
impact on render times.
HiQ: When enabled, this setting renders the preview in full image quality. If you need
to see what the final output of a node would look like, then you would enable the HiQ
setting. If you are producing a rough preview to test animation, you can save yourself
time by disabling this setting.
MB: The MB in this setting stands for Motion Blur. When enabled, this setting renders
with motion blur applied if any node is set to produce motion blur. If you are generating
a rough preview and you aren’t concerned with the motion blur for animated elements,
then you can save yourself time by disabling this setting.
Some: When Some is enabled, only the nodes specifically needed to produce the
image of the node you’re previewing are rendered.
Size
Since RAM Flipbook Previews use RAM, it’s helpful to know how many frames you can render
into RAM before you run out of memory. The Flipbook Preview dialog calculates the currently
available memory and displays how many frames will fit into RAM. If you have a small amount of
RAM in your computer and you cannot render the entire range of frames you want, you can
choose to lower the resolution to a setting that delivers the best quality/duration ratio for
your preview.
Network
Network rendering is only available in Fusion Studio. For more information on network
rendering, see Chapter 55, “Rendering” in the DaVinci Resolve manual or Chapter 4 in the
Fusion Studio manual.
Shoot On
Sometimes you may not want to render every single frame, but instead every second, third, or
fourth frame to save render time and get faster feedback. You can use the Step parameter to
determine the interval at which frames are rendered.
Frame Range
This field defaults to the current Render Range In/Out set in the Time Ruler to determine the
start and end frames for rendering. You can modify the range to render more or fewer frames.
Configurations
Once you’ve created a useful preview configuration, you can save it for later use by clicking the
Add button, giving it a name, and clicking OK.
Updating a Preview
This option is designed for the interactive frame-by-frame work of rotoscoping and painting.
Right-click over a preview in the viewer and choose Update from its contextual menu. When
active, any frames that are modified on the previewed node are automatically updated in the
preview’s playback. This lets you reserve the RAM for playback. You can keep it playing on a
loop or ping-pong while you work in another viewer.
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