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Batch and Batch FX Preferences

Click the Batch Prefs or BFX Prefs button to access settings to customize rendering, preferences, and adaptive degradation in Batch or Batch FX. Some Batch or Batch FX nodes also have specific preferences related to the functionality of the node. Click Node Prefs to access the preferences for a selected node.

Rendering Tab

Free Frames field

Displays the space remaining on the framestore. Non-editable.

Hardware Anti-aliasing Sample box

Select a hardware anti-aliasing sampling level to accelerate edge anti-aliasing with no performance penalty. Available values are dependent on your graphics card.

32-Bit Graphics button

Enable to output in 32-bit precision. This setting can degrade performance as it uses more memory than 16-bit precision.

On Render button

Enable to allow node and clip caching.

Current Frame Cache field

Displays the current number of cached frames. Non-editable.

Read/Write button

Click to set cache to read and write status.

Read Only button

Click to set cache to read-only status.

Render Cache button

Click to render the cache of selected nodes for the frames defined in the From and To fields.

Disable button

Click to turn the caching of selected nodes on or off.

From field

Displays the lower limit in the range of frames that can be cached. Editable.

To field

Displays the upper limit in the range of frames that can be cached. Editable.

Preferences Tab

Audio Source box

Select the audio context you want to hear when working with another clip.

The same setting appears in the Timing View menu.

Text Log button

Enable to save rendering status information in a text file, located in /opt/Autodesk/project//batch/log.

Status Webpage button

Enable to create three status HTML files, located in /opt/Autodesk/html.

Update Numerics button

Enable to update numerics in fields as the timebar is scrubbed.

Clear Buffer button

Click to clear the Undo buffer of all previous undo operations.

Check for Updated Versions button

Checks each imported Read File .clip file to see if it is the latest version, and updates it if that is not the case. Asks for confirmation before updating the version. Only available when a Read File node is used to import .clip files in the schematic.

Adaptive Degradation Tab

Use these settings to temporarily deactivate taxing operations during interactive manipulations. These settings do not affect the final renders.

Degrade Mode box

Select how to propagate display degradation in the image, according to settings for supported nodes. Nodes in the pipeline respect this degraded image. In this case, press Preview to see your results with full settings on.

Change Node Degradation box

Select whether to enable or disable adaptive degradation before clicking Apply To Selected.

Apply To Selected button

Click to set the selected nodes to the chosen option in the Change Node Degradation box.

The following two settings appear in the Node Prefs menu for specific nodes that support adaptive degradation:

Active button

Enable to activate adaptive degradation display settings. Use to prevent slowdowns in displaying your results when changing supported settings.

Synchronize All button

Enable to synchronize all nodes of the same type with the Adaptive Degradation settings of the current node.

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