Reference Guide

228
Controlling Playback
Video playback, import, and export
• Video Properties
Video playback on a FireWire DV device
You can view your video projects on an external FireWire DV device.
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 “Importing and playing back
videos” on page 220). 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 pop-up menu.
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
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.