Re: Premiere Pro CS 6.0: First Impressions

Regarding final rendering, I feel Avid Liquid (now defunct) had a good system. It supported real-time preview from native media (except for high-end multiple effects), but you could also turn on "background" rendering which didn't interfere (usually) with your workflow, but continually rendered your timeline to a "preview" codec of your choice (further improving preview performance).

If your output codec matched your preview codec, it pretty much just copied the preview render data to your output file -- blazingly fast. There were times you might opt to turn off the background rendering for performance reasons, so it wasn't perfect --although the degree depended on your hardware. Maybe Adobe can adopt that model some day.

Off topic -- Avid Liquid also had "infinite undo" -- another mindboggling feature. To cap it off, it had the incredible "instant" save feature so you never lost work if your system crashed. I would like to know some day why it could not survive the marketplace.