Eyeon:Manual/Fusion 6/Frame Format Preferences

Frame Format Preferences

Frame Format Preferences select the format settings throughout Fusion's interface. The settings in this preferences dialog are described in greater detail in the Frame Formats chapter of the manual.

Default Format

Use this drop-down list to select the default resolution for tools and media from a list of presets. This is only a default setting; loaders and creators may be adjusted to any resolution.

Use the edit boxes to change any of the default settings. When creating a new setting, press the New button and enter a name for the setting in the dialog box that appears and enter the parameters.

Settings

Width/Height

This specifies the Width or Height in pixels of the current format.

Frame Rate

Enter or view the frames per second played by this format. This sets the default Frame Rate for previews and the saver tool.

Has Fields?

Creator/loader tools added to the flow will be in Fields process mode.

Film Size

This control 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

This controls the pixel Aspect Ratio of the chosen frame format.

Guide 1

Guide 1 displays custom Guides in the views and defines the visible portion of film frames. The four values display the current left, top, right and bottom guide positions respectively. 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 on screen. The dotted line represents the image aspect centered about Guide 1's center values.

Guide 2

This 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 Button

This button creates a new default setting in the drop-down menu. Type a name for the setting in the dialog box that appears.

Copy Button

This copies the current setting to create a new one for customization.

Delete Button

This button will remove the current setting from the default drop-down list.

Color Depth

Use these menus to select the Fusion color mode for processing images. 8 bit is the lowest color depth and is sufficient for almost all video and multimedia tasks. 16 bit color has a much higher color fidelity but uses more system resources. 16 and 32 bit Float per channel, uses even more system resources and is best applied to film and HDR rendered images.

Independent settings exist for preview renders, interactive renders and full (final) renders. Generally, these options are ignored by the composition unless a loader or creator tool's Color Depth control is set to Default.

For a detailed explanation of how Color Depth is handled by Fusion, please consult the Frame Formats chapter in this manual.