Reference Guide

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Video playback, import, and export
Controlling playback
To use the Video Thumbnails context menu
1. Right-click the Video Thumbnails pane or the Video Thumbnails track strip.
2. Choose any of these options from the pop-up menu that appears:
• Show/Hide Thumbnails
• Display Absolute Frames
• Open Video View
• Insert Video
• Delete Video
• Export Video
• 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 232). 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.
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.