I hear the term “rendering” thrown around in both traditional and digital art communities like it’s some sort of buzzword, but I’ve never gotten a clear explanation as to what it means.
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In video editing, rendering is creating the finished file (which is then encoded)
You have your source files, and edit them together in the editor, along with all the titles, captions, photos, and filters you want on them. Now it may render a temporary thing to view for playback, but when you go to export the final video file, it’ll render it at the quality you tell it to, creating all the visuals, and then encoding it into one final file.
So, at its simplest, rendering is the computer generating the imagery. and it’s not just a computer term, people have been talking about their renderings for centuries, it just talks about the creation of images.
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