by Dave McElderry » Sun Jul 09, 2023 5:07 am
The purpose of rendering is to allow you to get smoother playback of projects on your machine in real time. It takes all of the effects and adjustments that you've made to your video and outputs to a single file that PrEl uses to playback your video when you preview. In other words, it takes some of the load off of the machine's resources when previewing. Rendering doesn't affect the final output in any way, for better or worse. You may feel secure that whatever the exported file looks like hasn't been affected by any rendering you've done (or not done). As for why your project doesn't seem to be responding to your attempts to render, maybe someone else will be able to help answer that. However, if you're not having any particular problem in previewing your video as your work, you're good to go and can ignore the yellow/orange line. I often don't render at all, but the need to render mostly depends on your machine's capabilities to process your project in real time.
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