User Manual

MOVIE WINDOW
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Movie Floats On Top: (Movie window mini-menu
only) This causes the Movie window to “float” on
top of other windows. This makes it possible to
always have the Movie window visible because it
will always be on top of other windows, even the
active edit window.
Audio Output: (Appears in the Movie window
mini-menu, right-click menu, and the Sequence
Editor info panel) Lets you route the movie’s
embedded audio track to an audio output, bus, or
aux track. From there, you can fully route, mix, and
process it as desired within Digital Performer’s
mixing environment.
No External Video Output: Choose this menu item
to disable video output to an external video device,
such as a FireWire camera or a MOTU video
interface.
HDX-SDI/HD Express/V4HD: If you have a MOTU
video interface connected to your computer,
choose it by name from the menu to output video
to one or more video monitors connected to the
interface.
FireWire: Lets you play back a DV-formatted
QuickTime movie via a FireWire-based video
hardware device such as a camera.
Video Output Playback Offset: Lets you
compensate for the inherent playback delay in
some video hardware devices.
SCRUBBING THE MOVIE WINDOW
You can “scrub” playback with the Movie window
scroll bar. For more information, see “Scrubbing
multiple MIDI tracks” on page 218.
IMPROVING MOVIE WINDOW
PERFORMANCE
The following things may hinder the computer’s
ability to play a movie back smoothly:
■ Larger movies (in pixels)
■ Movies with higher frame rates
■ Playing the movie from slower drives
■ Resizing the window to non-optimal sizes (not
double, full, or half size)
■ Having many other open windows with scrolling
wipers, auto scroll, level meters, etc.
Avoiding these things will help your movies play
back more smoothly.
EXTERNAL VIDEO HARDWARE OUTPUT
The Movie window can output SD or HD video to
a video interface to view it as standard definition
(SD) or high definition (HD) video on one or more
external video monitors. MOTU video hardware
and some third-party video hardware is supported.
MOTU video interfaces
Supported MOTU video devices include:
■ V4HD
■ HDX-SDI
■ HD Express
Figure 32-4: Connections for external video hardware output.
Each interface provides legacy SD output in all
standard NTSC and PAL formats, including
composite, component, S-video, and SD-SDI.
They also provide high definition (HD) 720 and
video
cable
Mac or PC
MOTU
video interface
TV
or
video monitor