FCP Says 'Writing Video' What's it doing?

Seems harmless, I think, but when I leave FCP open and say go off to have lunch or some such thing, a few times when I've returned I find it clicking away and 'writing video'. Some kind of save or what. The first time I waited for it to finish 'writing video' but once it had done that the same thing popped up again, 'writing video', again and again and again, a seemingly endless stream. Now I just cancel and get back to work. What is it doing tho, is it good or bad, what about stopping it?

Chances are you have Auto Render enabled in FCP's preferences. You can turn it off in preferences as well.
-DH

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