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Video playback, import, and export
Controlling playback
6. Click Save to export your video.
Once you save the video file, it can be re-inserted into a project (see “Importing and playing back
videos” on page 237). If the project will ultimately be exported to tape, that project will need to have
an audio sample rate of 48 KHz playing back at 16 bits.
To play video on an external DV device
1. Connect your external FireWire device. Make sure Windows recognizes the device, and displays
the device’s icon on the Windows taskbar.
2. Launch SONAR and open your video project.
3. In SONAR’s video view (Views > Video command), right-click the Video view and choose
External DV Output > <name of external DV device> from the pop-up menu.
4. Play your SONAR project.
The video disappears from the Video view and appears on your external monitor or camcorder.
Leave the Video view open so that you can move the Now Time frame-by-frame with the Video
view keyboard shortcuts.
If the Video view is the active window, you can use keyboard shortcuts to advance by a frame or a
frame increment. The +/-, and left/right arrow keys move forward/backwards by a single frame. If you
hold down the CTRL key, then the frame increment value is used (default = 5 frames). You can also
use the [ and ] keys to seek by the frame increment.
If your video does not play back in sync with your audio, see “Synchronizing external video playback
to audio” on page 246.
External DV output (IEEE 1394/FireWire)
SONAR relies on the Microsoft AV/C drivers to communicate with DV devices that are connected to
a IEEE 1394 FireWire bus on your computer, in order to control and preview video to digital video
devices.
If another software application overwrites or disables these drivers, the Preview to FireWire and
Print to Tape feature may not function correctly. If you are going to install a software application that
uses DV devices connected to the IEEE 1394 FireWire bus, please check with the software vendor
about DV device drivers it may install. Also, please check with the manufacturer of your DV device
for AV/C-compliance information. The following devices have been tested and known to work
properly with SONAR:
• ADS Pyro A/V Link DV transcoder
• Canopus ADVC-100 DV transcoder
• Canon ZR-85 miniDV camcorder
Note: When using DV AVI movies, the transcoding unit must be set to the same format (NTSC
or PAL) as the video file, or Preview to FireWire and Print to Tape will fail to work properly. Also,
CPU consumption will be lower when the source material is in DV format, since the format is
native to the FireWire device and doesn't incur a CPU hit for transcoding video.