Changing the layer image quality

You can select three levels of quality for the layer image: Best, Draft, and Wireframe. A higher quality setting shows more detail at higher resolution, but at the expense of redraw and rendering speed. The three levels of quality are as follows:

• Best quality displays and renders a layer using subpixel positioning, anti-aliasing, 3D shading, and complete calculation of any applied plug-in effects. Best provides the slowest display and rendering time.
• Draft quality displays a layer so that you can see it, but only at rough quality. It displays and renders a layer without anti-aliasing and subpixel positioning, and some effects are not precisely calculated. Draft quality is often the most useful setting for general work and for video layers (to avoid blurring when matching compositions to raw video footage).
• Wireframe quality represents a layer as a box with an X across it. Layer wireframes display and render faster than other settings. However, layer contents or masks are not visible--only position and size. Because of this limitation, wireframe quality is available only from the Layer menu.

To change the layer image quality:

With the layer selected in the Timeline window, choose Layer > Quality, and then choose Best, Draft, or Wireframe.