Turn off Preview during Render

Kimberly wrote on 12/5/2010, 8:27 PM

Hello All:

In VMS 9.0 you can turn off the preview during render, which I gather helps to minimize the demand on system resources. This is in Options/ Preferences/ General.

I don't find this capability in Pro 10. I'm too new with the Pro version to know if this function exists. Can we turn the preview during render off in Pro 10?

Regards

Kimberly

Comments

ushere wrote on 12/5/2010, 10:00 PM

i'm not too sure whether it uses enough resources to make much of a difference anyway?

wouldn't closing the window turn it off?

Chienworks wrote on 12/5/2010, 11:20 PM

Last time i did the experiment the time savings was something like 4 seconds on a 3 hour render. Why bother?

Steve Mann wrote on 12/6/2010, 6:26 AM

If I recall, V10 scales the preview window according to available resources, so if the program need all the processor power for encoding/rendering, the preview will be degraded. If the processor is waiting for hardware I/O, then it can up the preview quality. (I.E., preview processes have a lower priority)

FilmingPhotoGuy wrote on 12/6/2010, 7:23 AM

Click View and uncheck "Video Preview"