Viewing Aperture library in Front Row

Hello all
Front Row now supports the Aperture library. I noticed that the images are not as sharp as you can see them directly in Aperture when you edit them. So I guess that Front Row just displays some post-rendered JPG image. How can I set the quality of this image?
I want to use Front Row to display projects of my library to customers, so the images should be as rendered as sharp as possible.

front row, and any other application that supports displaying aperture photos is displaying the presets you created in aperture. to raise the quality, just go into preferences and set the size and jpeg quality of the previews. your library will grow if you set this higher than it is right now. you also might have to delete previews and recreate them for existing photos.
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