Why turn on background rendering?

So I have a 16gb ram macbook pro retina. I am editing native avchd 720p video in my timeline. This computer will pretty much play back anything with no hickups, even if it needs to be rendered. My question is, if in the end I am going to DVD, why does FCP even need to render if it isn't rendering to mpeg2 format? Is there any reason I wouldn't want to turn off background rendering since I want to export to MPEG2? Thanks!

If you computer is fast enough for realtime playback without rendering you don't need to render before exporting.

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