[Shahriar Rahman]

Bret;

Actually, you touched on something that I need clarification on (maybe I should just open the 4.5 HD manual for this): what does it mean when you see “Writing Video” during Print to Video? Of course, if your material is not rendered to begin with, it will need to be rendered then. However, this has been my experience (anyone is welcome to comment on this): even after I spend the hour to render the segment the normal way (to view the edit), I still spend a long time during Print to Video. To save time, I skip the normal rendering during editing, figuring that I will have to render it again anyway during outputting — our usage time on our editing system is very limited.

So, Bret, you are saying that the rendering during Print to Video is different from the normal render beacause it renders it to Cache instead of to the disk. But isn’t it true that you are spending more time when you are rendering the normal way and rendering again(to cache) when outputting? Why just not render only to cache when outputting instead?

Thanks for your input!

-shah