User Guide

CHAPTER 3
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Building a Composition
Setting resolution
Resolution determines the dimensions of the image in pixels, which affects the image
quality of the rendered composition. Setting a low resolution significantly increases
frame-rendering speed and decreases the amount of memory required to render. You can
use a low-resolution setting when animating or previewing a movie, and then increase the
resolution before rendering your final movie.
Choose from the following resolution settings in the Composition Settings dialog box:
Full Resolution Renders each pixel in a composition. This setting gives you the best image
quality, but takes the longest to render.
Half Resolution Renders one-quarter of the pixels contained in the full-resolution
image—half the columns and half the rows. This results in a rendering time approximately
one-fourth of the time required to render the entire image at full resolution.
Third Resolution Renders one-ninth of the pixels contained in the full-resolution image.
This results in a rendering time approximately one-ninth of the time required to render
the entire image at full resolution.
Quarter Resolution Renders one-sixteenth of the pixels contained in the full-resolution
image. This results in a rendering time approximately one-sixteenth of the time required
to render the entire image at full resolution.
Custom Resolution Renders the image at the resolution you specify.
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