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Using Real-Time Preview


    Adobe Premiere 6.5 includes software-based Real-Time Preview among its Timeline preview options. You can preview the Timeline without any additional hardware. Premiere's Real-Time Preview supports all Premiere effects, transitions, transparencies, motion settings, and titles. You set all the preview options in the Project Settings dialog box.

    Premiere dynamically adjusts video quality and frame rate as it previews in real-time. When Premiere performs a real-time preview on a system with inadequate resources, or on a particularly complex section of the Timeline, the preview quality degrades gracefully. In this instance, fewer frames are played and the video drops to draft quality.

    Note: Preview to RAM is no longer an option in Premiere.

To set the Real-Time Preview option in Windows:

  1. Choose Project > Project Settings > Keyframe and Rendering.
  2. Select Real-Time Preview and click OK.

To activate a Real-Time Preview in Windows:

    Do one of the following:

    • Press Enter if Real-Time Preview is enabled in the Project Settings dialog box. Playback begins at the edit line.
    • Press Shift+Enter if Real-Time Preview is not enabled in the Project Settings dialog box.

To set preview options in Mac OS:

  1. Choose Project > Project Settings > Keyframe and Rendering.
  2. In the Preview menu, choose one of the following:
    • From Disk to render all previews to the hard drive before previewing them. The preview begins at the in-point of the work-area bar.
    • To Hardware to display previews in real-time on your firewire or other hardware device.
    • To Screen to use Premiere's Real-Time Preview. The preview begins at the edit line.

To preview in Mac OS:

    Do one of the following:

    • Press Return.
    • Press Shift + Return to switch back and forth between To Screen (Real-Time Preview) and either From Disk or To Hardware.

    Note: If you press the spacebar when To Disk is selected in the Keyframe and Rendering dialog box, the Timeline previews without effects.