Instruction Manual

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Video Playback, Import, and Export
Controlling Playback
• Video Properties
Video Playback on a FireWire DV Device
You can view your video projects on an external FireWire DV device.
Note: this feature will decrease the processor load to your computer if the
video stream is a DV AVI file. If the stream is not DV AVI, the CPU load will
significantly increase, compared to playing back onscreen with SONAR’s
Video view.
To Convert a Video Project to DV AVI Format
1. Use the File-Export Video command.
The Export Video dialog appears.
2. In the File Name field, type a name for your new video.
3. In the Save as Type field, choose Video for Windows.
4. Click the Encoding Options button to open the AVI Encoder options
dialog, and choose DV Video Encoder in the Video Codec field. Click
OK.
5. Click the Audio Mixdown Options button to open a dialog of audio
mixdown options. Choose the audio options you want, but remember
that if you plan to save the project to DV tape, choose the following
audio format:
• Channel Format—choose Stereo.
• Sample Rate—choose 48000.
• Bit Depth—choose 16.
6. Click Save to export your video.
Once you save the video file, it can be re-inserted into a project (see
Inserting and Playing Back Videos). If the project will ultimately be exported
to tape, that project will need to have an audio sample rate of 48 KHz
playing back at 16 bits.
To Play Video on an External DV Device
1. Connect your external FireWire device. Make sure Windows recognizes
the device, and displays the device’s icon on the Windows taskbar.
2. Launch SONAR and open your video project.
3. In SONAR’s video view (Views-Video command), right-click the Video
view and choose External DV Output-[name of external DV device]
from the popup menu.