Preview Codec?

[Scintilla]

I feel really stupid asking this, but scrub?

Click and drag the timeline cursor along the line (make sure it's slow enough to give the thing a chance to render the frames if in Premiere Pro).

In older versions of Premiere, you have to hold Alt while scrubbing to be able to see effects and transitions.

[Kionon]

Doesn't this just accomplish the same thing as rendering the timeline? If not, I'm afraid I don't quite understand. And beyond that, is saveable? Rendering is.

[bum]

It's a little different. You basicaly control what previews and at what speed. So if you scrub real slowly the realtime preview will play acordingly

[Scintilla]

Doesn't this just accomplish the same thing as rendering the timeline?

Yes it does.

And beyond that, is saveable?

No. But that means it saves hard drive space. Plus it's faster.

Here's what I usually do:

- If I just want to see how the effects look, I'll scrub
- If I want to check my timing as well, I'll render a preview

[Scintilla]

Ack, should have said:

Scrubbing doesn't <i>always</i> force the program to render each frame on the fly; sometimes it'll have the rendered frame left over in memory from the last time you scrubbed it, so it comes up instantly.

So the more times you scrub through a section, the more likely it is to play back smoothly.

But the same thing goes for rendered previews.

[Kionon]

What does scrubbing use? Uncompressed?

[pathos86]

scrubbing is just moving at a slow speed at preview so its the same thing but yah just keep going thru the frames and eventually it'll play, u jsut gota be patient and its beter if u turn off the audio or whatever u dont need to include in ur scrubbing preview