Reference Guide

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Video Properties dialog
• Save As Type. Choose Video for Windows (AVI), Windows Media Video, or QuickTime. If you
have an external FireWire device connected, you can choose AVC Compliant Device, or whatever
your device is named. See “Exporting a project to a FireWire DV device” on page 246 for more
information.
• Video Export Settings:
• Encoding Options button. Clicking this button opens an encoding options dialog box for
the kind of file you chose in the Save As Type field.
• Audio Mixdown Options button. Clicking this button opens the Audio Mixdown Options
dialog box, which allows you to choose mono, stereo, or multichannel export; what sound card
driver you’re using to export; and all the audio components from your project that you want to
include in the exported mix.
Video Properties dialog
Right-clicking a video in the Video view and choosing Video Properties from the pop-up menu
opens the Video Properties dialog box. This dialog box has three tabs—the Video Settings tab,
the Info tab, and the Render Quality tab.
Video Settings tab
The Video Settings tab lets you set playback time options, and has the following fields:
• Clip. This field lists the name of the currently-loaded video file.
• Start Time. If you don’t want the video to start playing until some later time in the audio project,
fill in the time that you do want the video to start. For example, if you want the beginning of your
video to start playing at measure 3 of your audio project, enter 3 in the Start Time field.
• Trim-in Time. If you don’t want your video to start playing right at the beginning of the video file,
enter the time in the video file (in “SMPTE” on page 1919 format) where you want the video to
start playing. For example, if your video has 10 seconds of blank video at the front of the file, you
can enter 00:00:10:00 into the Trim-in Time field, and SONAR skips the first 10 seconds of the
video file and starts playing your video file at the 10 second mark in the video.
• Trim-out Time. If you have blank or unwanted video at the end of your video file, enter the time
(in SMPTE format) where you want to stop playing the video.
Info tab
The Info tab displays various attributes of the inserted video, and also contains the More button,
which displays a more extensive set of attributes.
Render Quality tab
The Render Quality tab lets you control how your video looks in SONAR. It doesn’t affect the video
that you eventually export, although you can experiment with different settings to get an idea of how
your video looks at different sizes and with different frame rates.
The Render Quality tab has the following controls: