Applying Depth and Effort While Making Incremental Improvements

You can experiment with the levels of depth and effort through selecting different levels while performing automatic runcutting.

  1. After you make a parameter change that you think will be beneficial when automatically runcutting, click BlockBuster > Cut.
  2. In the Cut dialog, click the Quick options in the Depth and Effort frames
  3. Check the Costing Summary to view the results that are significant to you.
  4. Repeat steps 1 and 2.

    Keep using the Quick/Quick combination until the significant results in the Cost Summary dialog no longer change, that is, there is no further improvement.

  5. Click the Normal options in the Depth and Effort frames.
  6. Check the cost summary.
  7. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until there is no further improvement shown in the results.
  8. Repeat the strategy with the Extended/ Extended combination and then with Serious Run Cutting/Serious Run Cutting.

You must check and recheck that your parameters are set up correctly. Increasing the strength of depth and effort should not be used as a substitute for less than optimal or correct parameter settings.

When you run a Quick/Quick combination when performing an automatic runcut, BlockBuster uses fewer algorithms compared to when it runs a Normal/Normal combination.

A Normal/Normal combination uses the algorithms that were used in the Quick/Quick combination plus additional ones.

Using an Extended/Extended combination tells BlockBuster to use all the ones it used before plus additional ones.

BlockBuster therefore uses a cumulative approach as you shift to more powerful levels of depth and effort.