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Video
Editing video
Ö When the video is played back in full screen mode, the aspect ratio of the video is
always kept.
Scrubbing video
You can scrub video events, i. e. play them back forwards or backwards at any speed.
This is done by clicking in the Video Player window and moving the mouse to the left
or to the right.
You can also use the Scrub controls on the Transport panel or a jog wheel on a
remote controller for scrubbing video events, see the sections
“Playing back with the
shuttle speed control” on page 105 and “Project scrubbing – the jog wheel” on page
105.
Editing video
Video clips are played back by events just as audio clips are. You can use all the basic
editing operations on video events, just as with audio events. You can take a single
event and copy it many times for the creation of mix variations. A video event may also
be trimmed using the event handles to remove a countdown for instance.
Furthermore, you can lock video events just like other events in the Project window,
and you can edit video clips in the Pool (see the chapter
“The Pool” on page 376).
It is not possible to fade or crossfade video events. Furthermore, you cannot use the
Draw, Glue, and Mute tools with a video event.
Ö Windows only: If you find that you are unable to edit a video file copied from a CD, this
might be due to the fact that files copied from CD are write-protected by default. To
remove the write-protection, in the Windows Explorer, open the Properties dialog and
deactivate the “Read-Only” option.
Extracting audio from a video file
If a video file contains audio, the audio stream can be extracted. As always when
importing audio material, a dialog is displayed allowing you to select different import
options (see
“Audio file import options” on page 684).
There are several ways to extract audio from a video file:
• By activating the “Extract Audio From Video” option in the Import Video dialog (see
the section
“Importing video files” on page 672).
• By using the “Audio from Video File” option on the Import submenu of the File
menu.
This will insert an audio event starting at the project cursor position on the
selected audio track. If no audio track is selected, a new one will be created.
• By activating the “Extract Audio on Import Video File” option in the Preferences
dialog (Video page).
This will automatically extract the audio stream from any video file during import.
• By using the “Extract Audio from Video File” option on the Media menu.
This creates an audio clip in the Pool, but does not add any events to the Project
window.
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These functions are not available for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video files.