Account and settings

You can view user information. Additionally, you can review and change settings related to the entire software, color management, and external monitors.


  1. Click the following button.

    : [Account] button

    : [Settings] button

    • The [Settings] screen will open.
    • Clicking the [Account] button will display your account information.
    • Clicking the [Settings] button will display the application’s setting information.
    • Click the menu on the left to switch screens.
      • USER INFORMATION
      • APPLICATION
      • COLOR MANAGEMENT
      • EXTERNAL MONITOR

      For details on the items that can be set and displayed on each menu screen, refer to the following.

User information setting/display items

Account:
Clicking below will display the sign-in screens for both your Sony account and Ci Media Cloud.
[Sign in]
If you are already signed in, your account name and registered email address will be displayed.
  • Click [View account] to access the Creators’ Cloud or Ci Media Cloud settings webpage.
  • Click [Sign out] to sign out of Creators’ Cloud or Ci Media Cloud.
About:
You can find information about using this software. (Version information / License information / Update information / Latest information, etc.)
Help:
You can view links to support information for this software. (Help / Support / Provide feedback)

Application settings

General:
You can check or modify settings that apply to the entire software.
  • Default transcode format
  • Map service that will be used to display maps when you click GPS links in a clip’s metadata
  • Where to save snapshots
    • To change the location, click the (Save snapshots to) button to select a folder, or enter the path directly.
  • Snapshot image format
    • You can select from JPG/PNG/BMP.
Video processing:

You can set GPU-accelerated video playback and transcoding.

[Video processing device]: The optimal GPU device is automatically selected.

  • Changing this value is intended for advanced users and may be useful for troubleshooting technical problems.
  • Select [CPU] if you want to turn off GPU acceleration.
  • High-quality deinterlacing is applied to interlaced source media when playback is paused, during transcoding, and during playback when the following setting is selected.
    [PLAYBACK SETTINGS] > [Speed/Quality] > [Quality]
  • High-quality upscaling is applied during transcoding when you select an HD or UHD render preset.

[OpenCL/OpenGL interoperability (requires restart)]: Toggles OpenCL and OpenGL interoperability on or off. (Performance/Compatibility)

  • Restarting your computer is required to change the settings.
  • Select [Performance] to enable OpenCL and OpenGL interoperability. We recommend using [Performance] in most cases for optimum playback performance.
  • Select [Compatibility] to turn off interoperability if you notice artifacts or corruption in rendered frames.
Preview & thumbnails:

You can switch between enabling/disabling the display of previews or thumbnails and configure other settings.

[Secondary preview window]: Setting to show the video preview in a secondary window that you can position anywhere on your screen or on a secondary monitor

[Preview using proxy clips]: Setting for playback using proxy clips

  • Proxy clips may not be available in all cases.

[50p/60p half-step timecode display]: Setting to display timecodes in the half-step mode during playback of 50p/60p clips

[Show thumbnails]: Setting to display thumbnail images on the [Browse] screen

  • Turning the switch off can improve performance on some slower storage devices.

[Number of thumbnail frames]: Setting for the number of frames to show screen transitions with thumbnails (3 to 30)

[Automatically rotate thumbnails]: Setting to automatically rotate the thumbnail frame based on camera rotation metadata on the [Browse] screen

[Clear thumbnail cache]: To delete the cached data for thumbnail display, click the [Clear] button.


Color management settings

Color space:

You can set the working color space, the video preview color space, and the external monitor color space.

[Working color space]: Select the color space that will be used for color grading.

[Preview color space]: Select the color space for the preview screen of this software.

  • In most cases, select [Rec.709] for your computer monitor.
  • You can also select other color spaces when, for example, checking video using scopes.

[External monitor color space]: Select a color space that matches the EOTF* setting of your external monitor.

* Electro-Optical Transfer Function


External monitor settings

External devices:

Select the settings when displaying a video preview on an external monitor via a Blackmagic Design device. (External monitor device/Monitor resolution)

  • When an external monitor connection is detected, the setting options will be displayed.

Refer to the following page for details on sample external monitor settings.

Sample monitor settings

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