Reference Guide

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Controlling Playback
Video playback, import, and export
• Windows Media Video
• QuickTime
SONAR also has a Video Thumbnails pane at the top of the Track view, which shows individual
frames of your video at different places in your project (See “Using the Video thumbnails pane” on
page 225 for more information).
You open the Video view by using the Views > Video command. The Video view displays the Now
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.
Commands in the Video view’s right-click 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.
QuickTime issues
In order to import/export QuickTime files in SONAR, you must install both the filters AND QuickTime.
Below are some other known QuickTime issues:
• QuickTime Import/Export requires version 6.5.1 or higher of the QuickTime Player to be installed.
The QuickTime Player is not included with SONAR, but can be downloaded separately from
Apple's web site (www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html).
• Audio mixdown to QuickTime must be set to 16 bits stereo or mono, or the resulting export will
create a unusable file or abort with an error.
• Audio mixdown to QuickTime must be set to 48 KHz or less or the resulting export will create a file
that plays back incorrectly.
• When exporting to QuickTime, the frame rate of the QuickTime video compressor will default to
“best possible”. Since not all movies in a SONAR video project correctly report their frame rate,
the best practice is manually enter the desired frame rate. This is done in the video settings of the
QuickTime video compressor.
• Exports to QuickTime from a SONAR video project created from an AVI using the Indeo video
compressor will create a movie with white frames.
• Exports to QuickTime may have an extra white frame on the last frame of the movie. This extra
frame can be removed with the QuickTime Pro Player or another QuickTime editing application.
See:
Importing and playing back videos
Optimizing video performance
Importing 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 pop-up menu.