What's "Realtime" ?

[Tony08]

Hello.
I'm a newbie, and I don't know what's "Realtime" editing ? Plz explaine to me what's deferent between "Realtime" and "Near Realtime" editing video. Thanks.

[tumbar]

The term was originally a "breakthrough" and only used in top-line editing applications. Previously after you made your changes (edits), then the program would have to render the changes before you could preveiw it. Being able to preveiw your edits in "realtime" and actually adjust accordingly was and is a big deal in NLE applications. NLE, non-linear editing, means you don't have to run the whole clip, just to see what that cut and fade in is going to look like in the final render, you can "preveiw" in realtime ie not wait for 45 minutes for the program to render a new file.

regards

Now it is a standard feature in most video editing programs.

[Tony08]

Thank you very much, now I undertood what is it. Good bye.