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The Current Time
The Current Time field at the right of the transport controls shows the frame at the position of
the playhead, which corresponds to the frame seen in the viewer. However, you can also enter
time values into this field to move the playhead by specific amounts.
When setting ranges and entering frame numbers to move to a specific frame, numbers can be
entered in sub-frame increments. You can set a range to be –145.6 to 451.75 or set the playhead
to 115.22. This can be very helpful when animating parameters because you can set keyframes
where they actually need to occur, rather than on a frame boundary, so you get more natural
animation. Having sub-frame time lets you use time remapping nodes or just scale keyframes in
the Spline view and maintain precision.
NOTE: Many fields in Fusion can evaluate mathematical expressions that you type into
them. For example, typing 2 + 4 into most fields results in the value 6.0 being entered.
Because Feet + Frames uses the + symbol as a separator symbol rather than a
mathematical symbol, the Current Time field will not correctly evaluate mathematical
expressions that use the + symbol, even when the display format is set to
Frames mode.
Fusion Studio Viewer Quality and Proxy Options
Five buttons along the right side of the transport controls let you either enable high-quality
playback at the expense of greater processing times, or enter various proxy modes that
temporarily lower the display quality in order to speed processing as you work.
Rendering for final output is always done at the highest quality, regardless of these settings.
Five buttons control the viewer quality, motion blur, proxy
options, and image-processing update settings.
HiQ
As you build a composition, often the quality of the displayed image is less important than the
speed at which you can work. The High Quality setting gives you the option to either display
images with faster interactivity or at final render quality. When you turn off High Quality,
complex and time-consuming operations such as area sampling, anti-aliasing, and interpolation
are skipped to render the image to the viewer more quickly. Enabling High Quality forces a
full-quality render to the viewer that’s identical to what will be output during final delivery.
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The Motion Blur button is a global setting. Turning off Motion Blur temporarily disables motion
blur throughout the composition, regardless of any individual nodes for which it’s enabled. This
can significantly speed up renders to the viewer. Individual nodes must first have motion blur
enabled before this button has any effect.
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