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Rendering
Rendering is the process which takes
place to build the frames of your movie
for output. Rendering is not always
required; however, when footage is
manipulated and changed, then it does
need to be rendered, not necessarily to
play back, but for fi nal output. Changes
such as color correction, opacity
changes, retiming, and stretching or
cropping of the image, or adding titles,
all require rendering.
Whenever you see a series of tightly
packed dots at the top of the Timeline,
this means that the portion of media
needs to be rendered.
Indicates rendering required
Leaving Background Render switched on in Preferences, means that ...