216 Chapter 8 INTRODUCTION TO EFFECTS This render speed will increase over time, but if you find it too slow you can go into Marquee and turn off some of the quality settings under Render/Options. Avoid making large, soft, drop shadows if render speed is a problem on animations. You can set up a Marquee animation to render and then go back to editing, but you may find the rest of your system has slowed down too much to do much serious work. There is much depth to Marquee and many people only scratch the surface. If you have the time you should explore the scripts and perhaps write some of your own. The Marquee scripts can be written in Python programming language, so if you have a repeti- tive task you could write a custom function to handle it (or pay your favorite Python programmer to do it for you). You can also import images that are larger than standard frame size and zoom and pan on the image. This is great for simulating motion- controlled camera moves. Since Marquee has keyframe and Bezier curves, you can get quite sophisticated motion on the images. And finally, Marquee can be used as a sophisticated mul- tilayer 3D DVE if you are willing to spend the time to learn it.