Zones?
The ‘Zone Options…’ panel Zones allow you to assign different settings to different parts of your clip. You can add as many zones as you want, and each zone can have it’s own unique settings. It’s most useful function is to allow for certain parts of your clip to be considered ‘less important’ than the rest by defining zones and how ‘important’ they are to you. You can define this importance in the tab accessible through the ‘Zone Options’ button. To assign specific settings to a zone, select it in the ‘main’ panel and then click on ‘Zone Options…’. There are two different ways to define the importance of a zone: -Weight defines your ‘importance’ as a value relative to the quality of the whole clip. If you define a zone with a weight of 0.30 then that zone’s bitrate will use 30% of the quality of the whole clip. -Quantizer defines the ‘importance’ as an absolute average. What that means is that a Zone with a Quantizer of 5 will absolutely have an average quantizer of 5.
