Instruction Manual

220 Controlling Playback
Video Playback, Import, and Export
The display in the Video view is synchronized with the Now time, giving you
convenient random access to the video stream. This makes it easy to align
music and digitized sound to the video.
Commands in the Video view’s right-click popup menu let you set the time
display format, the size and stretch options for the video display, the video
start and trim times, and other options.
See:
Inserting and Playing Back Videos
Optimizing Video Performance
Inserting and Playing Back Videos
Here are step-by-step procedures for inserting and playing back videos:
To Load a Video File Into a Project
1. Choose File-Import-Video, or choose Insert from the Video view’s
popup menu.
The Import Video dialog appears.
2. In the Files of Type field, select the kind of video file you’re looking for.
3. Select a file.
4. Check the Show File Info option to display information about the file in
the File Info section of the dialog.
5. Check the Import Audio Stream option if you want to load the file’s
audio data.
6. Check the Import As Mono Tracks option if you want to import the file’s
audio data as one or more mono tracks.
7. Click Open.
SONAR loads the video file and displays it in the Video view. If you choose
to import audio data, SONAR inserts a new track above the currently
selected track, and puts the audio data in a clip or clips on the new track.
Note 1: when you save a project that contains video, SONAR saves the
project’s video file by reference only; the actual video data remains in the
original file. Video data is not saved in bundle files, so it must be backed up
on its own.