Reference Guide

244 Controlling playback
Video playback, import, and export
To change the Trim-Out time
• In the video track strip, click the Trim-Out 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-Out time is the time in your video file at which you
want to stop video 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 box 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 box, and choose
DV Video Encoder in the Video Codec field. Click OK.
5. Click the Audio Mixdown Options button to open a dialog box 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.
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.