user manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Optimizing for Sound Forge
- Learning the Sound Forge Workspace
- Getting Started
- Navigating, Zooming, and Selecting
- Changing File Attributes and Formats
- Using Markers, Regions, and the Playlist/Cutlist
- Why use markers, regions, and the playlist?
- Using markers
- Using command markers in streaming media files
- Using regions
- Using the Regions List
- Using the playlist
- Displaying the playlist
- Adding regions to the playlist
- Understanding the playlist display
- Customizing the playlist display
- Repeating a region during playlist playback
- Playing from the playlist
- Arranging the playlist
- Replicating a region in the playlist
- Using stop points
- Deleting a region from the playlist
- Creating a new file from the playlist
- Configuring the playlist as a cutlist
- Saving a playlist/cutlist file
- Opening a playlist/cutlist file
- Copying the playlist/cutlist to the clipboard
- Recording, Extracting, and Burning
- Recording audio
- Recording manually
- Recording automatically
- Recording a specific length (punch-in)
- Choosing a recording mode
- Adjusting for DC offset
- Playing back recorded audio
- Using remote recording mode
- Synchronizing with other devices
- Viewing input levels
- Inserting markers while recording
- Configuring gap detection
- Automatically labeling windows and regions
- Changing blinking status
- Extracting audio from CDs
- Burning CDs
- Proper use of software
- Recording audio
- Editing, Repairing, and Synthesizing Audio
- Processing Audio
- Applying Effects
- Adding an effect
- Adding a chain of effects
- Applying effects using the Plug-In Chainer
- Adding plug-ins to a chain
- Selecting the processing mode for audio tail data
- Arranging plug-ins on a chain
- Bypassing effects
- Removing plug-ins from a chain
- Configuring chained plug-ins
- Saving individual plug-in settings as a custom preset
- Saving plug-in chains
- Loading plug-in chains
- Managing effects
- Automating Effect Parameters
- Adjusting envelopes
- Using Acoustic Mirror and Wave Hammer
- Working with MIDI/SMPTE
- Sampling
- Looping
- Working with Video
- Using Spectrum Analysis
- Working in the frequency domain
- Using a spectrum graph
- Displaying a spectrum graph
- Monitoring an input and output source
- Displaying frequency and amplitude values, notes and statistics
- Navigating a spectrum graph
- Changing the graph type
- Changing the zoom level
- Working with stereo files
- Updating a spectrum graph
- Viewing multiple spectrum graphs
- Creating and comparing snapshots of the Spectrum Analysis window
- Printing the graph
- Using a sonogram
- Adjusting Spectrum Analysis settings
- Shortcuts
- Microsoft Audio Compression Manager
- SMPTE Timecode
- Using CSOUND, MTU, IRCAM, BICSF, and EBICSF Files
- Index
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WORKING WITH VIDEO CHP. 16
Configuring your video settings
You can use the Video tab on the Preferences dialog to choose your video settings. From the Options menu,
choose
Preferences, and then click the Video tab.
The items on this tab are explained below.
Saving a video file
1.
From the File menu, choose Save As. The Save As dialog appears.
2.
From the Save as type drop-down list, choose a video file format.
3.
Name the file in the File name box.
4.
Select or clear the following check boxes as needed:
•
Stretch video to fill output frame (do not letterbox): Selecting this check box stretches the source video frame
if the destination frame size differs. When this check box is cleared, Sound Forge uses letterboxing or
pillarboxing to keep the frame aspect correct.
•
Fast video resizing: Selecting this check box speeds the process of saving video. When this check box is
cleared, the time required to save the file can increase dramatically. Clear this check box only when you
have critical material where nothing but the highest quality video rendering will do.
Items Description
Resample source video Select this check box if you want Sound Forge to interpolate video frames when you
render to a frame rate that is greater than the source file's frame rate.
Deinterlace method Choose a setting from the drop-down list to determine how Sound Forge separates the
two fields that make up a video frame when you render to a progressive format:
Blend Fields: Maintains the data in the two fields by blending them together. This
method can produce a smooth, motion-blurred image.
Interpolate: Deletes one field and uses the remaining field to interpolate the deleted
lines. This produces sharper images than Blend Fields but can introduce jagged motion
or stair-stepping artifacts.
Allow pulldown removal when
opening 24p DV
If you want Sound Forge to automatically remove pulldown fields when opening 24 fps
progressive-scan DV video files, select this check box. To open your 24p DV video files as
29.97 fps interlaced video (60i), clear this check box.
Frame numbering on
thumbnails
This drop-down list determines how the frame information is displayed on the video
strip when you have frame number display enabled. To display frame numbers, choose
the Frame number option. To display timecode, choose the Media timecode option.
External monitor device Allows you to identify an external video device with which Sound Forge can
communicate. This video device is used to display previews on an external monitor.
Important: Sound Forge automatically adds pulldown when you preview 24p video on
an external monitor.
Note: This option is available only in the full version of Sound Forge.
Select or clear Video check boxes as needed