My friend doesn't have to render brightness and contrast, why do I?

How is everybody doing?
I am new to Final Cut Pro 7 but I have been working on it for a couple  of Months. A friend of mines has been editing for a couple of years and  he's pretty much teaching me a lot of the basics.
I have encountered a problem that me nor him can find a solution.
You see, for some weird reason, with his Final Cut Pro 7, he can add the  filter "Brightness and Contrast" to his clips and doesn't have to  render it at all. However, when I try to do it, I have to render (and my  video is long so rendering is going to take forever).
I want to know if there is anything that I am missing or anything I need  to change on Final Cut Pro so I don't have to render when using the  filter "Brightness & Contrast".
Please let me know, thanks!

Make sure you're not comparing apples to oranges.  Do both his and your Mac have the exact same specs?  System resources has a lot to do with which filters will playback without rendering (in real time) and which won't.  And as MtD indicates, are you both using the same codec for editing?  Some video formats work natively in FCP and won't need much rendering ... formats that don't work natively in FCP will require much more rendering.  Also make sure that clip settings match the Sequence settings exactly.
Check every aspect of both systems and media; if everything is the same, then you may have a mystery ... but chances are you're simply comparing apples to oranges.
-DH

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