Reference Guide

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Video view
View reference
“Using real-time effects” on page 833
“Using control groups” on page 876
“Using remote control” on page 881
“Using the per-track EQ (Studio and Essential only)” on page 873
“Automation” on page 945
Video view
Open the Video view by using the Views > Video command or by pressing ALT+SHIFT+2. In
addition to the Video view, there is also a Video Thumbnails pane in the Track view (see “Using the
Video Thumbnails pane” on page 236). The File > Import > Video command lets you include an
AVI, MPEG, or QuickTime video in your project. This video is shown in the Video view 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 (default = 5 frames) Alternatively
you can use the [ and ] keys to seek by 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 by using the File > Export > Video
command. For more information, see “Preparing audio for distribution” on page 888.
Use these options in the Video File dialog box:
Look in. Use this field to find the folder that contains the video file you want to insert.
File name. Use this field to find the video file you want to insert. Clicking the name of the file in the
window above this field causes it to appear in the File name field.
Files of Type. Use this field to select what type of video files to display.
Show File Info. If you check this option, Cakewalk displays the video file’s format tag, audio
sample rate, and length in both audio samples and time.
Note: The project's video file is saved in the project by reference only; the actual video data
remains in the original file.
Note: In order to import and view QuickTime files, you will need to have installed the Quicktime
DirectShow filters included with the installer, and you also need to download and install
QuickTime from www.apple.com/quicktime.