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Video playback, import, and export
Controlling playback
commands for horizontal zooming. You control the height of the Video Thumbnails pane by
dragging the splitter bar up or down that’s at the bottom of the Video Thumbnails pane.
For step-by-step instructions, see the following procedures:
To hide or show the Video Thumbnails pane
Do one of the following:
• Drag the splitter bar that separates the Video Thumbnails pane from the Clips pane.
• Click the Track view View menu and choose Video Thumbnail Show/Hide.
• Press the V key.
To turn Video thumbnails On or Off
Do one of the following:
• Right-click the Video Thumbnails pane or the Video Thumbnails track strip and choose Show/
Hide Thumbnails on the pop-up menu.
• Click the Show/Hide Thumbnails button in the Video Thumbnail track strip.
To hide or show frame numbers on frames
• In the video track strip, click the Show/Hide Frame Numbers button .
To open the Video Properties dialog
• Double-click the video track strip.
To open the Video view
• Double-click the Video Thumbnails pane.
To move the Now time to a thumbnail
• Click the thumbnail.
To change the Start time
• In the video track strip, click the Start field, type a new number in Measure/Beat/Tick format, and
press ENTER. The start time is the time in your SONAR project at which your video starts to play.
To change the Trim-In time
• In the video track strip, click the Trim-In field, type a new number in SMPTE format, and press
ENTER (you can press the SPACEBAR instead of typing colons, if you want, and you can type
single zeros instead of double zeros). The Trim-In time is the time in your video file at which you
want to start video playback.