Where is the “Enable or Disable Previews” in CS4 ??

[Eddie Lotter]

See Exclude tracks in a sequence in the Premiere Pro CS4 Help.

Cheers
Eddie

[Koby Goldberg]

Thanks Eddie,
But that’s not what I meant…

CS3 had a new button just above the timeline called: “disable or enable previews” which disabled the RED line above the timeline in areas that were not rendered. Pressing this button disabled the rendering, (and the RED line would turn into WHITE line) and thus saved memory and hard drive space. Just after ending the project, you would re-enable the preview render (by pressing this button again) and would make a preview once. (Each preview render you make, by pressing ENTER, saves big video files to your hard drive, which are not being erased until you erase them yourself. so all those files are being saved, and Premiere searches for them for rendered areas, to display the video better when you preview it. this searching task takes memory and cpu power).
And the problem is that I can’t find that button in CS4. Maybe it was moved elsewhere…?

[Jon Barrie]

The feature is gone from I can assess. I personally didn’t see the point in it in CS3. It doesn’t save memory, all rendered files are video clips in themselves. So you are accessing the video rendered or not. Rendering is only for playback anyway. When you export at the end of a project the rendered sections amount to nothing. I think it was a gimmick in CS3 and I’m glad the pulled it in CS4. What they should put in there is a resolution quality function for better RT playback. Like AE has Full/Half/Qtr res.

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Eddie Lotter]

Sorry my friend, I misread your post.

Cheers
Eddie