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It’s 4:37 a.m. and your project is almost finished. You run a full-resolution rendering out to video for final review, and there it is – your live-action source footage is stuttering, the moving text looks blurry, and the motion tracked effects are not staying aligned to their targets.

I’ve been there plenty of times: it’s really late (or early depending on how you think about it), I’m tired, and my project just sucks. All because I failed to properly set one little option. And now all I have to do is figure out what option it was that I overlooked.

Even with all the excellent on-line help resources available, often I just wanted to keep a simple ...

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