On Mon, 27 May 2002 11:41:28 -0400, "Z Man" wrote:

>Windows XP Pro, AMD Athlon 1.2GHz CPU, 1.5GB PC133 sdram, fast 7200RPM hard
>drives. I'm new to Premiere, and trying to get up to speed on the basics. I
>had lots of problems getting transitions to work, but I finally managed to
>get some working. However, in order to view the video with transitions, I
>have to 'render' the video. If I select just the transition area, which is
>about 3-4 seconds, and press 'Enter', it takes about two minutes to render
>the video so that I can view it. Since I'm experimenting and want to check
>out the various transition effects, I switch transitions frequently, and it
>is painstakingly slow because I have to re-render each time I switch.

This render time is far more than it should be - with a 3-4
second P-6 original transition, with your computer, I would
expect render times to be generally well under 20 seconds...
Check settings.

>Questions: (1) Is there any way to speed up the process of previewing my
>transitions?

Press the "alt" key while scrubbing; look at the preview
boxes in the transition control window while moving the
slider; possibly by selecting "preview to RAM" (your RAM
amount, BTW, is FAR more than Premiere needs - 256 megs
is about all, normally...).

>(2) I cannot figure out how to replace one transition with
>another transition. I am cutting the current transition, and then inserting
>a new transition, but that means I have to set it up all over again, such as
>its duration, etc. Is there a faster way to swap in a new transition?

Drop new on top of old...