Changing the video properties

SONAR allows you to make some useful changes to a video's settings for film scoring purposes. To access these settings, simply right-click in the Video view and choose Video Properties from the pop-up menu to open the Video Properties dialog box.

The Video Properties dialog box has three tabs: the Video Settings tab, the Info tab and the Render Quality tab. For detailed information about all of these options and settings, see Video Properties dialog. For this tutorial, we are only going to look at the tools on the Video Settings tab.

There are three options on this tab that are very important to understand and extremely helpful when working with video. Let's take a closer look at them.

Table 10.  

Option	What it does
Start Time	The time in your SONAR project at which you want the video file to start playing.
Trim-in Time	The time in the video file at which you want video playback to start, this is useful if you don’t want to see the opening credits or the first few scenes. This is expressed in SMPTE time code.
Trim-out Time	The time in the video file at which you want video playback to stop, this is also expressed in SMPTE time code.

 

Note: Adjusting a video clip’s start time is currently only supported when using the DirectShow video engine, not when using the Media Foundation video engine. For information about changing the video engine, see To specify the default video engine.

Let’s change the Start Time value to measure 2. To do this, enter the number 2 in the Start Time box.

Now, click the RTZ button in the transport and then click Play. Notice how the video doesn’t start playing until measure 2 in your project.

 

Tip: You can also edit the video clip directly in the Video Thumbnail pane: To move the video clip, drag the clip header. To adjust the Trim-in Time, drag the left edge of the video clip. To adjust the Trim-out Time, drag the right edge of the video clip.

 

See:

Working with markers

Exporting your video