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 Show Render Settings: When this checkbox is selected, the Fusion Render Settings
dialog will be displayed every time a render is started in Fusion Studio. Holding Shift
while starting a render will prevent the display of the dialog for that session, using
whatever settings were applied during the last render. Disabling this option reverses
this behavior.
 Mouse Wheel Affects the Window Under the Pointer: Normally the mouse wheel or
trackpad swiping works in the currently active window. With this option enabled, it will
work in the window underneath the cursor, so you don’t have to click into a window first
to make it active.
 Frames Start From: This designates the starting frame number for clip times in the
Loader and its Clip list.
 Show Color As: This setting determines the numeric scale used to represent colors.
The available options are Normalized (0 to 1), 8-bit (0 to 255), and 16-bit (0 to 65,535).
This does not affect the actual processing or quality of the image, but it can make the
mental math sometimes used to figure out adjustments a bit easier.
Auto Save
The Auto Save settings only apply to Fusion Studio. To set auto backups for the Fusion page in
DaVinci Resolve, use the DaVinci Resolve Project Load and Save Preferences.
When Auto Save is enabled in Fusion Studio, comps are automatically saved to a backup file at
regular intervals defined by the Delay setting. If a backup file is found when attempting to open
the comp, you are presented with the choice of loading either the backup or the original.
If the backup comp is opened from the location set in the Path Map preference, saving the
backup will overwrite the original file. If the backup file is closed without saving, it is deleted
without affecting the original file.
 Save Before Render: When enabled, the comp is automatically saved before a preview
or final render is started.
 Delay: This preference is used to set the interval between Auto Saves. The interval
is set using mm:ss notation, so entering 10 causes an Auto Save to occur every 10
seconds, whereas entering 10:00 causes an Auto Save every 10 minutes.
Proxy
 Update All, Selective, No Update: The Update mode button is located above the
toolbar. You can use this preference to determine the default mode for all new comps.
Selective is the usual default. It renders only the tools needed to display the images
in the Display view. All will render all tools in the composition, whereas None prevents
all rendering.
 Standard and Auto: These sliders designate the default ratio used to create proxies
when the Proxy and Auto Proxy modes are turned on. These settings do not affect the
final render quality.
Even though the images are being processed smaller than their original size, the image viewing
scales in the viewers still refer to original resolutions. Additionally, image processing performed
in Proxy Scale mode may differ slightly from full-resolution rendering.
The Proxy and Auto Proxy size ratios may be changed from within the interface itself by right-
clicking on the Prx and APrx buttons above the toolbar and selecting the desired value from the
contextual menu.
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