Premiere 6.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 9. Previewing Transitions and Effects

As you know, playing back your edited program is easy: Just hit the program view’s play button and enjoy. This works great as long as your program consists of simple cuts. But transitions and other effects may not play back so readily. Instead, the program view displays an X in the corner of the image, or it may even inform you—in various tongues, no less—that this portion of the program is “not yet rendered” (Figure 9.1).

Figure 9.1. The program view displays an X in the corner of the image if the effect has not been previewed. At times, a text message also appears.

That’s because transitions ...