[Velocity211]

I always wondered that. After seeing those terms in iMovie and Final Cut Pro, I just need to know. Could someone please tell me what the difference is?

[mduell]

Rendering is the process of producing the pixels of an image from a higher-level description of its components (geometry, viewpoint, texture and lighting). Encoding is taking that series of images (which in "raw" form would be huge) and compressing it into a smaller file.

(parts of this post were shamlessly cribbed from Wikipedia)

[Velocity211]

Thanks, that's one thing cleared up.