Options and Configuration

General

Set Home Screen launch behavior.

Reset program to display warnings that have been previously cleared.

Editing

Set Image display duration.

Set Transition display duration.

Set Adjustment Layer display duration.

Set Caption display duration.

Set Freeze Frame display duration.

Set Mosaic display duration.

Duration can be set in either seconds or frames.

Snapshots

Displays the location of saved Snapshots. Click the Browse folder icon to specify a new hard drive location.

Enabled by default, this option automatically adds Snapshots to the available media in the Media panel. Screenshots residing in the Media panel can be dragged onto the Timeline.

Enabled by default, this option plays a sound whenever a Snapshot is taken.

Performance

Enabled by default, this option ensures that the encoding process will be undertaken by a graphics card, rather than the CPU. This option accelerates the media rendering process. If presented with multiple graphics cards, LUXEA Free will prioritize hardware acceleration options using the following hierarchy: NVIDIA, Intel® Quick Sync.

Select a playback quality from Full to 1/16. This option can speed up the editing process when working with high quality videos, or the host computer is slowly processing the video.

Project Save

Displays the location of saved projects. Click the Browse folder icon to specify a new hard drive location.

Automatically saves projects as often as indicated. When restarting LUXEA Free after an unexpected shutdown, this option will recover the project and open it in its state as of the most recent save point.

Indicates how often to automatically save.

Project Load

Load project zoomed out so all elements are visible on the Timeline.

Media Cache

LUXEA Free Video Editor may cache files to help improve performance. Your current number of temporary cached files will display here, along with how much space they take up. To Clear the Cache immediately, click on the Clear button, and click OK.

Temporary files that are in use in your current project will be ignored when the Cache is Cleared.

Toggled on by default, use the dropdown option to set the frequency for which cached temporary files will be automatically deleted.

Audio Recorder

Displays the location of saved audio recordings. Click the Browse Folder button to specify a new hard drive location.

Watermark

Enable to include a Watermark on a video.

Browse to find an image to use as a Watermark.

Select a square to indicate a desired Watermark position in the media asset.

Use the slider to change the Watermark opacity. By default, a watermark is 100% opaque, which means it is visual and solid. By reducing the opacity, the watermark becomes gradually transparent. A watermark with an opacity of zero is completely transparent.

Language

Set the default language.