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Settings
The Settings section defines the format that is selected in the Default Format menu. You can
modify an existing format or create a new one.
Width/Height: When creating a new format for the menu or modifying an existing menu
item, you specify the Width or Height in pixels of the format using these fields.
Frame Rate: Enter or view the frames per second played by the format. This sets the
default Frame Rate for previews and final renders from the Saver tool. It also sets the
playback for the comp itself, as well as the frame to time code conversion for tools with
temporal inputs.
Has Fields: When this checkbox is enabled, any Creator or Loader tool added to the
Node Editor will be in Fields process mode.
Film Size: This field is used to define how many frames are found in one foot of film.
The value is used to calculate the display of time code in Feet + Frames mode.
Aspect Ratio: These two fields set the pixel aspect ratio of the chosen frame format.
Guide 1: The four fields for Guide 1 define the left, top, right, and bottom guide positions
for the custom guides in the viewer. To change the position of a guide, enter a value
from 0 to 1. The bottom-left corner is always 0/0, the top-right corner is always 1/1. If the
entered value’s aspect does not conform to the frame format as defined by the Width
and Height parameters, an additional guide is displayed onscreen. The dotted line
represents the image aspect centered about Guide 1’s Center values.
Guide 2: This setting determines the image aspect ratio in respect to the entire frame
format width and height. Values higher than 1 cause the height to decrease relative to
the width. Values smaller than 1 cause height to increase relative to width.
New: You use the New button to create a new default setting in the drop-down menu.
Once you click the button, you can name the setting in the dialog box that appears.
Copy: The Copy button copies the current setting to create a new one for
customization.
Delete: The Delete button will remove the current setting from the default
drop-down list.
Color Depth
The three menus in the Color Depth section are used to select the color mode for processing
preview renders, interactive renders, and full (final) renders. Processing images at 8-bit is the
lowest color depth and is rarely sufficient for final work these days but is acceptable for fast
previews. 16-bit color has much higher color fidelity but uses more system resources. 16-bit and
32-bit float per channel uses even more system resources and is best for digital film and HDR
rendered images.
Generally, these options are ignored by the composition unless a Loader or Creator tool’s Color
Depth control is set to Default.
General
The sections contained in the General preferences affect the behavior of the Inspector as well
as some other user interface elements.
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