On Tue, 03 Jul 2001 03:15:37 GMT, wrote:

>Not sure if you really mean what you wrote: "Software that can do "smart"
>rendering only renders the
>> transitions and effects. Software that doesn't do smart rendering will
>> render everything. "
>There is nothing else to render. Video footage with was "rendered" when your
>hard drive captured it. There is nothing to render. Transitions and effects
>are it.

Some older editing software, like the othewise excellent
Lumiere, would render *everything* on the timeline, making
it quite slow...