Reference Guide

236 Controlling playback
Video playback, import, and export
Video playback, import, and export
Video files play in the Video view in real time as your project plays. You can also view your video on
an external DV device connected to an IEEE 1394 port (“FireWire”).
The File > Import > Video command lets you include the following video file types in your project:
• AVI (also called Video for Windows).
•MPEG.
• Windows Media Video.
• QuickTime (.mov files only). SONAR supports QuickTime 7, including H.264 support and the
ability to import AAC audio files.The File > Export > Video command lets you export your audio
tracks and your imported video as the following file types:
• AVI (also called Video for Windows)
• 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 242 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.
The following are some other known QuickTime issues:
• It is presently only possible to export QuickTime videos on a 32-bit system. This is a limitation of
QuickTime, not SONAR.
• 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
Note: Some .mov and .avi files contain no video. You can’t import these files with the File >
Import > Video command. You must use the File > Import > Audio command instead, and set
the Files of Type field to All Files.