User`s guide

Chapter 7: Playing and Editing the Movie Track 45
If the Movie window is partially blocked by an-
other window on your screen, playback will
slow or “stutter” as your computer’s CPU at-
tempts to display the video.
Movie window size and position are saved with
your session.
To show the Movie window:
■ Choose Windows > Show Movie Window.
To resize the Movie window:
■ When playback is stopped, click the lower
right corner of the Movie window and drag to
shrink or enlarge the window.
Movie Aspect Ratio
(AVoption Only)
You can set the Movie window to automatically
snap to one of two window aspect ratios (4x3 or
16x9), or to allow unconstrained resizing.
By constraining the aspect ratio, you can see a
more accurate on-screen representation of the
final video. Use 4:3 for video destined for televi-
sion, and use 16:9 for wide screen film-format
viewing.
To set the Movie window aspect ratio:
1 Choose Movie > Show Movie window.
2 Choose Movie > Movie Window Aspect Ratio.
3 Choose 4:3, 16:9, or unconstrained as the as-
pect ratio.
Moving the Movie Track or
Video Clips
You can use the Move Clip command to spot
the entire Movie track, or individual video clips,
to a new SMPTE frame location. When you
move the Movie track, the whole track or se-
quence is moved to the new frame location you
specify. When you move a clip, it is moved to
the new location within the Movie track.
You cannot have multiple QuickTime clips on a
Movie track.
If you move a clip in which a sync point was pre-
viously created, the sync point will maintain its
position within the clip. For more information
on understanding, creating, identifying and re-
moving sync points, see the Pro Tools Reference
Guide.
To spot the entire Movie track to a new frame
location:
1 Set the Main Timebase display to Time Code
using the pop-up menu.
2 Enable Spot mode by clicking the Spot button.
Note that if there are already clips on the
Movie track, and you edit over them, the
overwritten material will be removed from
the Movie track.
You can undo Move Clip
and restore the original clips.
For more infor-
mation, see “Undo/Redo for Video Editing
Commands” on page 42.