Reference Guide

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Import Video File dialog
Look In
Use this field to navigate to the folder that contains the MIDI file or Project5 pattern that you want to
import.
File Name
This field lists the name of the file you’ve selected to import.
Files of Type
Use this field to choose whether you want to display MIDI files or Project5 patterns.
File Info
For a selected MIDI file, this field lists the type of MIDI file, the number of tracks, and any MIDI
Groove clip characteristics that the file contains, such as Follow Project Pitch, Number of Beats,
etc. For Project5 patterns, this field does not display information.
Play
The Play button allows you to audition the selected MIDI file.
Import Video File dialog
SONAR's Import Video File dialog lets you include an AVI, MPEG, or QuickTime video in your
project. This video is shown in real time as your project plays.
The Video view displays the current time (as in the Big Time view) and the video itself. 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.
If the Video view is the active window, you can now 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
the control key is pressed, then the frame increment value is used (the default is 5 frames)
Alternatively you can use the [ and ] keys to seek by the frame increment. See Changing the Frame
Increment.
Commands in the Video view's pop-up 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. Your project's video
and digital audio data can be saved together in a new AVI file with File > Export Video command.
For more information, see Preparing Audio for Distribution.
Note: The project's video file is saved in the project by reference only; the actual video data
remains in the original file.