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Chapter 60: Working with Video in Pro Tools 1381
Once this value is set, it should not need to be up-
dated unless you change components in your video
monitoring chain (such as projectors or plasma
screens).
Playing Video to an External
Monitor Using a Video
Peripheral
With a qualified video peripheral, Pro Tools can
play and display Avid and QuickTime SD or HD
video files with frame edge-locked HD image out-
put to a variety of professional HD monitors.
HD or SD Output
Pro Tools lets you output Avid and QuickTime
HD or SD video to an external HD-SDI, HDMI,
NTSC, or PAL monitor using an Avid Qualified
video peripheral.
Video Reference
Video output can be locked to external video refer-
ence, including Black Burst and Tri-Level Sync.
Bouncing the Video Track to
a QuickTime Movie
When you have finished your final mix and syn-
chronized your audio events to the movie, you can
bounce the main video track and a mono, stereo, or
greater-than-stereo (Pro Tools Ultimate only)
mixdown of your session to a new QuickTime
movie. Pro Tools Ultimate also lets you bounce
multiple stems to QuickTime.
You can choose from a variety of standard Quick-
Time codecs, which are fully compatible with
other QuickTime applications.
To bounce video and audio in the video track to a
QuickTime movie:
1 Finalize your mix (or stems).
2 Make sure the video track you want to bounce is
currently the main video track. (The track’s
Video Online button must be highlighted blue.)
3 Make sure that all of the audio tracks you want
to include in the bounce are audible (not muted
or inactive).
4 Assign the output of each of the tracks you want
to include in your bounce to the same stereo
output or bus path.
5 Do one of the following:
• To bounce the entire session, click Return to
Zero in the Transport to go to the beginning of
the session.
• To bounce a portion of the session, enable
Op-
tions > Link Timeline and Edit Selection
, and
make a selection in the Edit window or the
Timeline.
6 Choose File > Bounce to > QuickTime Movie.
The QuickTime Bounce dialog appears.
Video Sync Offset dialog
For a list of devices explicitly tested for Avid
and QuickTime HD or SD output from
Pro Tools, visit www.avid.com.
Pro Tools Ultimate should be locked to a suit-
able clock reference, such as a SYNC HD. If no
external audio clock is referenced, audio will
not be frame-edge aligned and may drift.