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• Normal: The default setting, renders objects in the Canvas at a medium quality. Shapes
are antialiased, but 3D intersections are not. Floating point (32-bit) footage is truncated
to 8-bit.
• Best: Renders objects in the Canvas at best quality, which includes higher quality image
resampling, antialiased intersections, and antialiased particle edges. If the project
contains any floating point QuickTime images, the floating point versions of those files
are loaded and rendered in float. This option slows down project interactivity.
For more information on float space, see About Bit Depth.
• Custom: Allows you to set a variety of additional controls to customize render quality.
Choosing Custom opens the Advanced Quality Options dialog. For information on the
settings in the Advanced Quality Options dialog, see Advanced Quality Settings.
Note: 10-bit YUV (Y′C
B
C
R
) files render at 8-bit in the Canvas unless render quality is set
to Best.
Tip: When exporting a project using the “Movie - current project and canvas settings”
option (from the Use pop-up menu in the Export dialog), set Render Quality to Best
prior to exporting.
• Lighting: Turns the effect of lights in a project on or off. This setting does not turn off
lights in the Layers tab (or light scene icons), but it disables light shading effects in the
Canvas.
When this setting is selected and you are using a default export preset (such as DV
NTSC Movie), your project is exported with lighting. This is because export presets are
exported with the “Use current project and canvas settings” option selected by default
(in the Output tab of the Export Options dialog). When this checkbox is selected,
whatever is enabled in the View pop-up menu is also exported.
For information on overriding current project settings for lighting on export, see
Overriding Project Settings Selected in the Render Pop-Up Menu.
• Shadows: Turns the effect of shadows in a project on or off.
For information on overriding current project settings for shadows on export, see
Overriding Project Settings Selected in the Render Pop-Up Menu.
• Reflections: Turns the effect of reflections in a project on or off.
For information on overriding current project settings for reflections on export, see
Overriding Project Settings Selected in the Render Pop-Up Menu.
• Depth of Field: Turns the effect of depth of field in a project on or off.
For information on overriding current project settings for depth of field on export, see
Overriding Project Settings Selected in the Render Pop-Up Menu.
• Motion Blur: Turning this setting off disables the preview of motion blur in the Canvas.
This may result in a performance improvement.
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