Thu Nov 08, 2018 6:21 am
There is a field in the Loader for a Proxy image. Fusion will use that image as long as the Prx button is on, but it will always render using the main file. That gives you the ability to use a fast loading proxy image without needing to worry about changing out the Loader at render time.
Most tools are resolution-agnostic and won't care if you're working on something that is 1/10th scale. The exceptions are Filter, Custom Filter, Rank, and the Particles system. The former operate at the level of discrete pixels, so their results will change in proxy mode--they'll be stronger with Proxy turned on. The particles usually appear as though a different random seed was used.
Blurs and sharpening may be difficult to evaluate in proxy mode since the resolution is so much lower, but if you have a critical blur to adjust, you can always disable Proxy temporarily to dial in that specific effect.
Other tools that might give problems are anything that deals with screen-space vectors: Optical flow, vector motion blur, and stereo disparity. I'm not sure how those interact with proxy mode, but I suspect that they'll act similarly to the filters.
Film Grain might also appear differently in proxy mode. But usually you'd want to tune your grain with the full-resolution image, anyway.
Another item in the toolbox you'll want to use extensively is the Region of Interest (RoI) button, which allows you to only render a portion of the image. That can save quite a lot of time. Like Proxy mode, RoI is ignored when you render your final image.
Bryan Ray
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