Eyeon:Manual/Fusion 6/Preferences
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Introduction
Most artists will want to customize Fusion to suit their own methodology. A wide variety of optional settings are available to configure Fusion's behavior. These settings are accessed via the Preferences dialog. The Preferences dialog can be opened from the File menu at the top of the interface. Select File>Preferences.
The dialog box is divided into a tree that appears on the left which is used to select which of the settings panels appear on the right. There are two levels of preferences; Global and Composition. The Global Preferences are used to set options that are specific to Fusion's overall behavior. Each new composition inherits a copy of the preferences. The Composition Preferences can be further modified without affecting the global prefs, or any other flow that is currently open.
Preference Settings
The preferences tree's first entry is assigned to the global preferences. Opening the global preferences branch reveals the following sections.
Controls the Appearance of the interface and assigns lookpacks.
Used to configure the classes and options to Cluster render interactively with a group of machines.
Used to select Default behavior for a variety of Fusion options, such as global range, timecode display, and automatic tool merging.
Used to set default options for display and handling of the Flow editor in new compositions.
Used to select the default Frame Format when adding new creator tools, the frame rate for playback and the default pixel aspect ratio applied to footage.
Contains options for the General interface, such as auto save, default proxy settings and autosmoothing of splines.
Used to save the exact physical Layout of Fusion's interface elements.
Allows to set options for depth and aspect ratio as well as define the local cache settings.
Used to control Memory management both interactively and at render time.
Used to configure Network rendering options, such as selecting a render master, email notification and whether the machine can be used as a render slave.
Containing options for the use of OpenCL devices and tools.
Used to configure virtual path names used by loaders and savers for footage and path preferences. It also sets the default folders used by Fusion to locate comps, macros, scripts, tool settings, disk caches and more.
Set up for Preview creation and playback options.
Configures passwords used to execute Scripts from the command line, and programs for use when editing scripts.
Allows to set various spline options for autosnap behaviour, handles, markers and more
Contains options for handling and smoothing of animation splines, Tracker path defaults and more.
Used to create and edit timeline/spline filters, and set default options for the Timeline editor.
Miscellaneous settings for tweaking Fusion's behavior when loading frames over the network and queue/network rendering.
Used to manage display view settings and set default control colors and color picking ranges.
Contains two panels, a servers panel used to select which remote Bins servers to which Fusion will attempt to connect, and a settings panel for default settings related to the bins.
The I/O branch contains sub-entries for configuring display playback and default settings of AVI and QuickTime (QT 3 and up) format files. Also used to configure video hardware like the dpsReality, etc.
The Import branch contains options for EDL Import that affect how flows are built using the data from an EDL.