Instruction Manual

1442 Dialog Reference

Video Properties dialog

• Clip—This field lists the name of the currently-loaded video file.

• Start Time—If you don’t want the video to start playing until some later

time in the audio project, fill in the time that you do want the video to

start. For example, if you want the beginning of your video to start

playing at measure 3 of your audio project, enter 3 in the Start Time

field.

• Trim-in Time—If you don’t want your video to start playing right at the

beginning of the video file, enter the time in the video file (in SMPTE

format) where you want the video to start playing. For example, if your

video has 10 seconds of blank video at the front of the file, you can

enter 00:00:10:00 into the Trim-in Time field, and SONAR skips the first

10 seconds of the video file and starts playing your video file at the 10

second mark in the video.

• Trim-out Time—If you have blank or unwanted video at the end of your

video file, enter the time (in SMPTE format) where you want to stop

playing the video.

Info tab

The Info tab displays various attributes of the inserted video, and also

contains the More button, which displays a more extensive set of attributes.

Render Quality tab

The Render Quality tab lets you control how your video looks in SONAR. It

doesn’t affect the video that you eventually export, although you can

experiment with different settings to get an idea of how your video looks at

different sizes and with different frame rates.

The Render Quality tab has the following controls:

• Preview checkbox—check this checkbox to cause the video in SONAR

to display at a slightly lower quality: “preview” quality. This can cause

slightly smoother playback.

• Frame Rate (FPS)—use this field to change the frame rate. Lower

frame rates free some of your computer’s resources for playing back

music and other tasks.

• Video Size, X and Y—the X field sets the video’s width, in pixels; the Y

field sets height.

• Restore Defaults—click this button to set the three previous fields

(including Preview) back to their default values.