Preferences - Animation

Picture Size for Large Flying Layers (Pixels) - This is a size for pictures inserted to layers flown at foreground, shown "close" to a viewer, visually large.

Picture Size for Small Flying Layers (Pixels) - This is a size for pictures inserted into flying layers when they are flying at a distance and seems "small".

Distance to Small Layers (0 - 90) - This lets you change threshold level for the moment when program switch hi and low res pictures. A larger value means the program show hi-res picture for a longer time.

Please bear in mind that at the beginning of the fly-in your pictures are look "normal" and they looks are more and more corrected as far as they fly down. This correction starts at the same moment as the hi-res pic is replaced with low res one (means that hi-res pictures are not corrected and low res are corrected) so if you set to large "Distance to Small Layers", for example, 70 or 80 pictures will be fall non-corrected and will be abruptly corrected at the very end.

Note 2: Usually higher picture resolution gives you better quality and poorer performance. Fortunately, normally, you don't need to set picture sizes too large because these are pictures for flying (means "moving") layers only and it is very hard to see smallest details of moving objects anyway. So you may quite safe select 300 or 400 pixels even if you intend to export Full HD video. And don't worry about large still images! When the program zooms, pans and stops over the enlarged still mosaic cell the program uses to show the original image instead of smaller stored in memory picture.

Note 3: Program uses your original images to generate smaller pictures stored in memory and to show it enlarged when showing zoomed-in cells. This means that the program should have access to your original images that were used by Mazaika to make and render the mosaic project. Please don't remove or delete the original images after the Mazaika project was saved. If these images were located on any kind of external drive, please don't unmount that drive while you work with Mazaika-Animation.

Note 3: Depending on the number of cells in your mosaic and size and format of the pictures that were used as tiles it may take some time to open the Mazaika-Project. While the project is opening you may work with Mazaika-Animation in "Draft Preview" mode. That is the program shows layers in low resolution only. You need to wait until the program prepares layer pictures to see the high-resolution animation and be able to export it into a movie file.

Reset All Settings To Defaults... - This will reset all program parameter to their factory setting. It will ask a confirmation before the reset.