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# Setup and Processing Options

Before processing a text clip and rendering text effects, you must set crop settings for the text layer, blur settings, text animation, softness, and whether or not you want to use prerendering. The prerendering feature accelerates the rendering process for a text layer.

Set text processing options in the Text Setup menu. To access the Setup menu, click Setup. The Setup controls are described as follows.

Software anti-aliasing values can range from 1 to 64. A higher value increases the sampling rate, but also increases processing time. An anti-aliasing of 1 means no anti-aliasing is performed and the result is a hard edge.

TipA higher anti-aliasing value is usually needed with outlined text.

Softness box
  Defines the softness of the anti-aliasing samples.

Blur box
  Sets Gaussian Blur or Box Blur. Gaussian Blur uses subpixel resolution and creates a subtle effect with the Blur Shadow attribute. Gaussian has rounded, smoother edges and is better for animation; however, processing time is increased.

Box Blur has rectangular, rougher edges, but is more economical with processing time, especially if you are working on a rough draft.

#### Topics in this section

- Processing Text Clips
- Processing Considerations