Eyeon:Manual/Fusion 6/Preview Preferences

Preview Preferences

Use these controls to set the default size of Previews and the type of preview created by Fusion.

Options

Render Previews Using Proxy Scaling

When checked, Fusion will scale the images down to the preview size at the loader and creator tools. This causes much faster rendering. If this control is de-selected, frames will be rendered at full size, then scaled down.

Skip Frames To Maintain Apparent Framerate

When checked, Fusion will skip frames during playback of flipbooks and file sequences to maintain the framerate setting.

Show previews for active Loaders

Determines if the preview playback controls on the bottom right of the screen are shown when a Loader with a valid file is activated.

Show previews for active Savers

Determines if the preview playback controls on the bottom right of the screen are shown when a Saver with a valid file is activated.

Display Files Sequences On

This designates which view is used for the interactive and file sequence playbacks as well as for the scrubbing function in the bins.

Type

AVI/Flipbook

Use this setting to select whether previews are created using RAM-based Flipbook, or using the Microsoft Video For Windows codec selected in the AVI Preferences. When the Flipbook option is selected, the rendered frames are spooled into RAM. No image compression is used. The color depth of the Flipbook images is defined by selection of the provided options.

In almost all cases, use Match Screen Depth to use the configured color depth of the video card. Select from the other options if there are problems displaying or playing the Flipbook preview. When the Flipbook option is selected, a conservative estimate of the number of frames that can comfortably fit within available memory is displayed beside each of the Preview Size options.

Use Image Cache

This forces all previews to be played from the interactive Image Cache in memory, custom Flipbooks are never created that displace existing caches.

Notes

For the best Flipbook display speed, the video card should be capable of double buffering in its current resolution and color depth mode.