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Video Playback, Import, and Export
Video files play in the Video view in real time as your project plays.
The File-Import-Video command lets you include the following video file types in
your project:
• AVI (also called Video for Windows)
•MPEG
• Windows Media Video
•QuickTime (.
MOV files only)
Note: some .MOV and .AVI files contain no video. You can’t import these files with
the File-Import-Video command. You must use the File-Import-Audio command
instead, and set the Files of Type field to All Files.
The File-Export-Video command lets you export your audio tracks and your
imported video as the following file types:
• AVI (also called Video for Windows)
• Windows Media Video
•QuickTime
SONAR Producer also has a Video Thumbnails pane at the top of the Track view,
which shows individual frames of your video at different places in your project (See
below for more information).
You open the Video view by using the View-Video command. The Video view
displays the Now time (as in the Big Time view) and the video itself. The display in
the Video view is synchronized with the Now time, giving you convenient random
access to the video stream. This makes it easy to align music and digitized sound
to the video.
Commands in the Video view’s right-click popup menu let you set the time display
format, the size and stretch options for the video display, the video start and trim
times, and other options.
Skip to the next file Click in the Play List view toolbar.
Loop continuously over the
play list
Click the button in the Play List view
toolbar.
Show or hide file name
extensions and folder names
(path)
Click the button to enable or disable the
display of folders.