Preferences
Choosing F6 from the keyboard will open
the Preferences dialogue box.
This allows you to customise settings that will be applied to the editing
module.
The images below show my selections with a short explanation to the ones
I have changed.
The General Tab
The Working Folder ~~ a new folder can be created for each project we
work on, That way files used in a particular project can be easily managed.
Clip Display Mode ~~ is set to Thumbnail Only, this shows the frames in
full when viewing the timelines.
Media Library Animation ~~ I have deselected this option, seems a lot
going on with all playing, besides you get a preview when you flost the
mouse over.
Instant Playback Target ~~ set to Preview Window.
Background Colour ~~ this defaults to black but can be useful to use
other colours, allowing us to see the actual frame size.
Remember to revert back to Black when rendering.
Display Safe Area ~~ Most TV's suffer from what is known as "Overscan"
This loses some video detail around the edges of the screen, keeping your
titles within the safe area helps overcome these problems.
Your PC monitor does not suffer from "Overscan", the editing
looks ok till we view on the TV, and that may be to late........
Apply Colour Filter ~~ should remain selected.
Re-sampling Quality ~~ I usually set this to Best
Use Fit-to-Screen ~~ The overlay tracks can cause some problems resizing
in proportion, I dont find this option helps, so deselected.
Default Photo duration ~~ I use 10 seconds, seems to work ok when creating
slide shows. All images inserted to the timeline will use this duration.
Just personal preference.
Keep Aspect Ratio ~~ Is referring to Images and should be used.
Apply anti-flickering filter ~~ Hmmm has been known to cause some quality
issues when applying Pan & Zoom, normally set but maybe worth remembering
if you have image quality issues, try both settings.
Audio Fade ~~ default is 1 second, not really long enough to recognise
a fade I use 3 seconds.
Transition Duration ~~ is also set to 3 seconds
Automatically add transition is de-selected but
easily changed depending on the type of editing I am doing.
This tab is mainly referring to DV type capture, most of the settings being left as default.
Snapshot Format ~~ I select Jpeg with 100 quality.
De-Interlace for Snapshots selected as default.
The Performance tab
Smart Proxy ~~ editing High Definition Video, AVCHD video can be very
demanding on the pc's resources, this may show as slow or jerky timeline
playback, Video Studio overcomes this by creating proxy files.
They do take a while to create so be patient.
I would advise that you try without using proxy and only use if you have
problems. (Auto generate recommended)
You can access the Smart Proxy Manager from the Settings menu bar allowing
you to control the files. They can be quite large.
Please note that proxy files do not improve render times, not that I know
of anyway.
Enable Hardware Acceleration
User Interface Layout
Allows you to view the customised workstation layout, its not the most
intuitive panel I have seen.
The Custom options become available after you have saved them.
This panel is for applying a saved layout, we cannot save a layout from
here.
From the Settings menu Layout Settings view the save options and keyboard
shortcuts.
Remember F7 will reset to default layout