I'm gonna take an opposite stance of Marek. At an early stage like that and when your focus is syncing, you don't want to be adding extra processing requirements to the video that are unrelated to the task you are trying to achieve. Depending on your hardware and the codec that you're working with, having effects like UltraKey on your footage might cause your video playback to struggle and make it difficult to focus on the sync. This also depends on how much manual work you need to be doing. If it was recorded with timecode or you're able to get an accurate sync with waveforms, then you may not have that much to do manually, but again - you might be struggling to play it when you try to check it (without rendering).
In a lot of workflows you're going to be doing the visual effects at or near the end of the process - for similar reasons as above. Effects slow things down, and you don't want to be slowed down while trying to make creative decisions about your edit. When things are locked into place and you don't need to worry as much about real-time playback performance, that's when you can start finessing those things. That being said, at a certain point -- maybe early on -- you may want to see what's going on with the keys, and maybe you actually need to the key to be done to even proceed creatively. So it's not always applicable to wait until the very end. To keep things running smoothly, the Global FX Mute can be helpful to toggle effects on and off, and again working in optimized editing codecs or using proxies will help.
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