Operation Manual

Chapter 5: Effects 157
Find in Library: Open to the page of the Library Browser that contains
a particular effect, with its thumbnail already selected.
Real-time vs. rendered
Adding effects to a clip increases the amount of computation Pinnacle
Studio must do to give you a smooth preview. Depending on your
computer’s hardware, the ‘rendering’ process for a clip can easily
require more computing time than can be managed in real time; that
is, while the preview is actually running.
In this circumstance, some ‘pr
e-rendering’ will be required before the
clip can preview acceptably. Rendering progress is shown on the time-
ruler by yellow (‘to be rendered’) and green (‘now being rendered’)
shading. The shading is removed as soon as pre-rendering is complete.
Options for rendering are set in the Preview page of the Pinnacle
Studio Control P
anel. (See “Export and Preview” on page 360).
If effects are not playing back smoothly, try increasing the Optimization
Th
reshold value. This will increase the amount of pre- rendering time
while impr
oving the preview quality. If rendering is taking too long, on
the other hand, the Optimization Threshold value can be decreased, or
rendering can be turned off by altogether by setting it to zero. Other
factors that affect playback and rendering time are the format, size and
frame rate selected for the project. These can be changed in Timeline
settings. Please see “Timeline settings” on page 72.
The Settings panel
The Settings panel provides a list of the effects that have been assigned
to the current clip (whose name is given at the top). Click an effect
name in the list to select it; this causes its settings to be displayed for