Is it important to render before exporting in Premier Pro?

[blurredvision]

I always seem to just go straight to exporting a movie instead of rendering first. Will I get better results by rendering before doing anything else?

Thanks.

[turk690]

When you export, parts of the timeline the need to get rendered (like transitions, titles, effects, etc.) will get rendered before served to the codec of choice for the output file format. If u render b4 exporting then exporting simply becomes faster. But when u render 1st you are necessarily also exporting to a file, which negates Premiere Pro's real-time preview capabilites.