User Guide

AVI NAVIGATION
VIDEO STRIP
When you open an AVI file, you will notice the video strip on top of the
waveform display. When you use Zoom Out to view the waveform, all of the
frames in an AVI will not be displayed.The left edge of the displayed frames are
aligned with the audio in time. If you’d like to see the frame numbers appear
on the frames, activate the Video Strip shortcut menu by right-clicking on the
video strip and select Number Frames.
To resize the video strip, drag its lower edge up or down.
To enable frame animation in the video strip, select Animate frames from the
Video Strip shortcut menu.When this option in enabled, moving the cursor will
cause the nearest frame to be displayed above it. During playback, you will see
the active frame window play the video as the cursor moves past it.
VIDEO PREVIEW
Selecting Video Preview from the View menu opens theVideo Preview window. The
frame closest to the cursor (during editing or playback) will always be
displayed in this window.
At the top of the window, the original frame size and current display size (in
parenthesis) are displayed, along with the frame rate and current frame
number. An asterisk (*) by a frame number indicates that the frame is a key
frame (see the section on compression below).
ATTACHING A VIDEO TO SOUND FILE
To attach a video to an opened sound file:
1. Select Properties from the File Menu and go to the Video page. Pressing the
Attach button will display the Attach Video dialog, where you can select an AVI
file as a source of video.
FILE FORMATS AND ATTRIBUTES
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