Chapter 3: Pre-Production

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User defined

: select this option and then select the language from the drop-

down list that you want to use.

Editing Preferences

To set your editing preferences, click 

 > 

Edit

 > 

Preferences

. The Preferences 

window opens, and then click the 

Editing

 tab. Available options are as follows:

Timeline

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Default workspace

: select whether to display the timeline or storyboard 

editing workspace by default.

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Link all tracks when moving/removing content in Video Track

: links titles, 

video effects, music and PiP clips to clips in the Master Video track. Selecting 
this option moves these clips when a video clip in the Master Video track is 
moved. De-select this option to allow for the movement of all timeline clips 
separately.

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Add transition between photos when applying Magic Motion

: select this 

option to add the transition selected in 

Transition type

 between photos when 

using the Magic Motion tool and apply to all photos.

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Add an effect and a title when using Freeze Frame

: select this option to 

automatically add an effect and title to the timeline when you click the Freeze 
Frame button.

Durations

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set the default durations (in seconds) for image files and the different effects 
when placed in the timeline.

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Auto save project

: select this to automatically save your project, every 

specified number of minutes, so you don’t lose your changes by accident.

GPU acceleration

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Enable NVIDIA CUDA/ATI Stream technology to speed up video effect 
preview/render

: if your computer is using a NVIDIA graphics card that 

supports CUDA technology or an ATI graphics card that supports Stream 
technology, you can select this option to speed up rendering of some video 
effects and MPEG-4 video by tapping into the multi-core parallel processing 
power of GPUs.