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Clip navigation buttons, with the Play project button circled
A Ulead VideoStudio project (*.VSP), cannot be played until it has been rendered, or created.
Click the Play project button to begin the process of rendering your project for previewing.
Rendering is easy, but it can take some time. Fortunately, Ulead VideoStudio offers
SmartRender technology, which optimizes the rendering process by not re-rendering the parts
of the project that have not changed. Ulead VideoStudio performs this magic with heavy use of
temporary files. These files are stored in a location that you can set in the Preferences:
Preview tab, found on the Global commands menu. By efficiently allocating disk space for
temporary files, you don’t need to worry about “Out of Memory” error messages.
However, the space in your hard drive reduces as the number of temporary files increases.
From time to time, you need to delete these temporary preview files of the current project to
speed up rendering or previewing. To do so, use Preview Files Manager on the Global
commands menu.
Preview Files Manager dialog box
Global commands menu
So the best advice we can offer is that you edit for a while and then when you need a break, hit
the Play project button and let Ulead VideoStudio render your project. By doing this fairly
often, render times should be very reasonable.
Rendering a portion of your project, instead of the whole thing, can save you time and give you
a quick preview of important sections. This is especially useful for rendering across transitions,
title sequences, or to check the timing of audio clips in relation to the associated video. If you
only want to render the part of your project, hold the Shift key on your keyboard while clicking
the Play project button. For details on partial rendering, see page 57.