How are realtime effects achieved in Premiere Pro? Is it all through cpu power? I was under the impression you had to have a Matrox RT.X100 in order to have realtime effects - otherwise they had to render before they could be previewed?

Don't know about the Radeon thing unless you are referring to the LE 5.5 Pro card which was a modified ATI All-in-wonder card of sorts. However the main benefit of that card was to allow analogue capturing and realtime previewing (without rendering). What I am referring to is the ability to drag an effect to your timeline and have it previewable immediately, no requirement for it to render first. This is what LE uses the GPU for, and it doesn't have to be the Pro card (like mine isn't).

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