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# Timeline FX / ConnectFX Preferences

## ConnectFX

Interactive Max field
  Displays the number of seconds that the system uses to attempt a render when previewing the effect. Editable.

Add Axis On Matte Output button
  Enable to have an Axis timeline effect automatically added to the timeline when a matte is output from the output node to the timeline.

Always Load Nodes button
  Enable to automatically load all FX nodes into memory when a setup is loaded. Disable to load nodes when entering an FX level.

Clear Rendered Memory button
  Enable to automatically clear an FX node (and all nodes in setups nested within the clip) from memory when its output is rendered.

## ConnectFX Mode

Head Media option box
  Select how to interpret missing information before a clip.

Gap Media option box
  Select how to interpret missing information during a clip.

Tail Media option box
  Select how to interpret missing information after a clip.

## ConnectFX Automatic Nodes Copy

Automatic Nodes Copy box
  Select whether FX nodes are never copied into memory, always copied, copied when there is an Action node in the setup, or copied in a partially rendered setup.

## Timeline Timewarp

Interpolation Option box
  Select an interpolation option for your interlaced timewarp.

Use Last Speed button
  Enable to apply the last timewarp speed to future timewarps.

Timewarp Speed Display box
  Select whether timewarp speed is displayed as a percentage (%) or in frames per second (fps).

## Timeline Resize

Fit Method box
  Select a fit option for clips that must be resized when they are added to the timeline because their resolution is different from the project.

Resize Quality box
  Select a sampling algorithm for clips that must be resized when they are added to the timeline.

Keep Aspect button
  Enable to maintain the aspect ratio of clips that are resized when you add the to the timeline.

## Timeline Text

Text Anti-aliasing box
  Select an anti-aliasing softness rate for text.

Default Font field
  Opens the font browser. Select a default font and click Load.

## Timeline Blend

Timeline Blend box
  Select the type of blend that is applied by default when you add a blend timeline effect.

## Timeline Colour Correct

Default Menu box
  Select whether the Colour Corrector or Colour Warper is the default menu displayed when you access the Colour Corrector through a timeline effect.