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Inserting and Playing Back Videos
Here are step-by-step procedures for inserting and playing back videos:
To Load a Video File Into a Project
1. Choose File-Import-Video, or choose Insert from the Video view’s popup
menu.
The Import Video dialog appears.
2. In the Files of Type field, select the kind of video file you’re looking for.
3. Select a file.
4. Check the Show File Info option to display information about the file in the
File Info section of the dialog.
5. Check the Import Audio Stream option if you want to load the file’s audio data.
6. Check the Import As Mono Tracks option if you want to import the file’s audio
data as one or more mono tracks.
7. Click Open.
SONAR loads the video file and displays it in the Video view. If you choose to
import audio data, SONAR inserts a new track above the currently selected track,
and puts the audio data in a clip or clips on the new track.
Note: when you save a project that contains video, SONAR saves the project’s
video file by reference only; the actual video data remains in the original file. Video
data is not saved in bundle files, so it must be backed up on its own.
To Play a Video File
1. Open the Video view by choosing View-Video.
2. Press the Spacebar to play or stop video playback.
3. To change the display size of the video, right-click in the Video view and
choose Stretch Options-[desired size] from the popup menu.
Note: When you play a video file that has high temporal compression, such as
movies optimized for web delivery, playback may not be smooth unless you disable
video thumbnails (found in SONAR Producer only), (see “Using the Video
Thumbnails Pane” on page 154 for more information).
To Delete the Video From the Project
1. Open the Video view by choosing View-Video.
2. Right-click in the Video view and choose Delete.
SONAR removes the video from the project. Note that imported audio data is not
deleted.
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