Instruction Manual

230 Controlling Playback
Video Playback, Import, and Export
4. Play your SONAR project.
The video disappears from the Video view and appears on your
external monitor or camcorder. Leave the Video view open so that you
can move the Now Time frame-by-frame with the Video view keyboard
shortcuts.
If the Video view is the active window, you can use keyboard shortcuts to
advance by a frame or a frame increment. The +/-, and left/right arrow keys
move forward/backwards by a single frame. If you hold down the Ctrl key,
then the frame increment value is used (default = 5 frames). You can also
use the [ and ] keys to seek by the frame increment.
If your video does not play back in sync with your audio, see Synchronizing
External Video Playback to Audio.
Exporting a Project to a FireWire DV Device
Once your project sounds the way you want it to, you can export the video
and audio together to an external FireWire DV device. This is called
“printing to tape,” if your external device uses tape.
To Export a Project to an External DV Device
1. Use the File-Export-Video command to open the Export Video dialog.
2. In the Save as Type field, choose AVC Compliant Device. You might
see a different name in the dropdown menu, depending on what type of
external device you are using.
3. Click the Audio Mixdown Options button to open the Audio Mixdown
Options dialog.
4. In the Audio Mixdown Options dialog, choose the following options, and
then click OK:
• Channel Format—choose Stereo.
• Sample Rate—choose 48000.
• Bit Depth—choose 16.
5. In the Export Video dialog, click the Encoding Options button to open
the property page of your external device.
6. In the property page, use the transport controls to position the tape in
your external device to a blank area for recording.
7. Close the property page, and click the Save button in the Export Video
dialog to start exporting. If you’re printing to a device that uses tape, the
tape stops rolling when the export process is finished.