Previewing at final playback speed

You can preview the work area of your project at the final playback speed by building a preview on your system's hard disk (rendering). This method processes all effects and stores them in preview files on disk (see Working with preview files). The first time you preview, there may be a slight delay as effects are processed. However, once effects are processed, subsequent previews play back instantly unless you have edited effects within the work area since the last preview.

Premiere will not build an audio preview file to the hard disk unless the timeline audio tracks meet certain parameters concerning the number of audio tracks and the number of filters applied to those tracks. These parameters can be set manually. For information about setting these parameters, see Audio settings.

To enable previewing at final playback speed:

1 Choose Project > Project Settings > Keyframe and Rendering.

2 For Preview (under Rendering Options), select From Disk.

3 Click OK.

To preview the work area at the final playback speed:

Choose Project > Preview or press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS).

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