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Controlling render speed and quality

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Controlling render speed and quality

- [Instructor] There are render settings that you can change in Media Composer that will speed up your renders in exchange for some loss of quality. If I go to the File menu and into Settings, in the User section, and scroll down to Render, let's take a look. Probably the three most important settings to go over here are here, the Image Interpolation option. These are pretty much low, medium, and high quality, or let's say low, standard, and high quality. This is the quality of the render files that you're going to produce. Media Composer will use the precomputes. That's the files that are produced when you render for output. And so in most cases, you'll find find that the standard quality is fine. But if you're working on a higher end project with a more powerful computer, you might decide to go for the Advanced Polyphase option. We also have options when it comes to rendering time warps and motion effects. The…

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