Apple Motion 3 - Manual (Page 50)

50 Chapter 1 Getting to Know Motion
4 In the Output tab of the Export Options dialog, turn off “Use current project and canvas
settings.”
The options in the Output tab become available, including Resolution, Color, Frame
Rate, Camera, Lighting, Render Quality, Field Rendering, Motion Blur, and Frame
Blending settings.
When the Lighting checkbox is turned on in the Output tab, the project is exported
with lighting regardless of the Lighting status in the View pop-up menu.
Field Rendering: Turning this setting off disables field rendering, which is required for
smooth motion playback on a TV monitor. Field rendering nearly doubles rendering
time, so disabling this item may result in a dramatic performance improvement.
When Field Rendering is turned on in the View menu and you are using the default
export preset (“Movie - current project and canvas settings”), your project is exported
with field rendering. (The default codec used is Animation, 8-bit, Color + Alpha.) When
this default setting is used, any options chosen in the View pop-up menu (or the View
pull-down menu), as well as settings in the Project Properties dialog, are exported.
However, if you choose another preset, field rendering is enabled based on the
selected preset itself (whether that particular codec requires fields). For example, if you
choose DV NTSC Movie, field rendering is enabled because fields are expected. If you
choose DVCPRO HD 720p24 Movie, field rendering is disabled because it is a
progressive-scan (no fields) movie format.
Note: When opening a Motion project in another application such as Final Cut Pro or
DVD Studio Pro, the Field Rendering setting in the View pop-up menu does not control
whether field rendering is applied or not. This is controlled in the Project Properties
dialog (press Command-J). When Field Order is set to anything other than None, field
rendering is used in the other application, regardless of the Field Rendering status in
the View pop-up menu.
To override the current project settings for field rendering on export:
1 Choose File > Export.
2 Optional: Select a name and location for the saved file.
3 In the Export dialog, click the Options button next to the Export pop-up menu.
4 In the Output tab of the Export Options dialog, turn off “Use current project and canvas
settings.”
Note: If you have already chosen another export preset from the Use pop-up menu in
the Export dialog, “Use current project and canvas settings” is turned off.
The options in the Output tab become available, including Resolution, Color, Frame
Rate, Camera, Lighting, Render Quality, Field Rendering, Motion Blur, and Frame
Blending settings.