Controlling Playback and Rendering QualityFinal Cut Express's real-time architecture offers flexibility far beyond the simple enabling or disabling of individual effects. Finding the right balance between image quality and system performance for each specific working situation involves some tweaking, but you have a couple of important tools to assist you. Setting up image quality of real-time playbackYou use the settings on the RT pop-up menu to adjust the balance between image quality and playback performance.Real-time playback quality settings can be adjusted in either of two locations: the Timeline's RT pop-up menu (Figure 18.5 ) and the Playback Control tab of the System Settings window. The RT pop-up menu is the more convenient route. Figure 18.5. Mix and match settings in the Timeline's RT pop-up menu to adjust the balance between playback quality and real-time performance.Chapter 3, "Presets and Preferences." Setting up image quality of rendered materialUse the settings on the Render Control tab of the Sequence Settings window to balance the image quality and rendering speed of rendered material in your current sequence. For more information, see "Changing the Settings of an Existing Sequence" in Chapter 4. For details on Render Control tab settings in your Sequence preset, see Chapter 3, "Presets and Preferences." ![]() |