Reference Guide

238 Controlling playback
Video playback, import, and export
To play a video file in the Video view
1. Open the Video view by choosing Views > Video.
2. Press the SPACEBAR to play or stop video playback.
3. To change the display size of the video, right-click in the Video view and choose Stretch
Options > [desired size] from the pop-up menu.
To delete the video from the project
1. Open the Video view by choosing Views > Video.
2. Right-click in the Video view and choose Delete.
SONAR removes the video from the project. Note that imported audio data is not deleted.
To enable or disable video playback
1. Open the Video view by choosing Views > Video.
2. Right-click in the Video view and choose Animate.
If your computer is not fast enough to play back video efficiently, you can get better performance by
temporarily disabling video animation during playback.
To set the Time display format
• Click the time display to cycle between MBT, SMPTE, Frames and None
Or
• Right-click in the Video view and choose an option from the Time Display Format menu:
Note 2: After you load a video file into a project, you can play it back either in the Video view, or
on an external DV device through a FireWire port. See “Video playback on a FireWire DV
device” on page 244 for more information.
Note: When you play a video file that has high temporal compression, such as movies optimized
for web delivery, playback may not be smooth unless you disable video thumbnails, (see “Using
the Video Thumbnails pane” on page 242 for more information).
To do this Do this
Select a time format Choose MBT, SMPTE, Frames or None
Change font or font color Choose Font and select new font characteristics
Turn off the time display Choose None
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