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Video
Setting the Window size
If you are playing back video in a window on your com-
puter screen, you may want to adjust the size.
For the QuickTime player (Windows and Mac), you can
drag the borders, just like resizing other windows.
For the DirectShow video player (Windows) and for the
QuickTime player (Windows and Mac), you can also pro-
ceed as follows:
• For the DirectShow video player, open the Device
Setup dialog from the Devices menu, click Video Player in
the Devices list and use the buttons in the Video Proper-
ties section to select a size.
• For QuickTime, right-click in the video window to open
the Video window context-menu and select one of the
Size options.
Playing back video in full screen mode
When viewing video on the computer screen, you can
choose to let the video occupy the whole screen during
playback or in Stop mode:
• For DirectShow video, right-click in the video window to
switch to full screen. Right-click again to exit full screen.
• For DirectX and QuickTime (Windows and Mac), right-
click in the video window to open the Video window con-
text-menu and select Full Screen Mode. Right-click again
or press the [Esc] key on your computer keyboard to exit
full screen mode.
Playing back video file using graphics cards
(Windows only)
Multi-head graphics cards that support overlay functional-
ity can be used to display the video picture on an external
TV or computer monitor in full screen mode. The manufac-
turers nVIDIA and Matrox have working (and tested) solu-
tions available. Check the card’s documentation for
information on how it handles video output and how to set
it up for multi-monitor display.
Playing back a video via FireWire (Mac OS X only)
For Apple computers equipped with a FireWire port, you
can easily connect external video hardware via this, as
OS X has built-in video support for the most common for-
mats (NTSC/PAL/DVCPRO). FireWire is capable of high
data-transfer speed and is the most common standard for
communicating with video-related peripheral equipment.
• To play back a video file via hardware connected to the
FireWire port, select “FireWire” in the Outputs pop-up of
the Device Setup–Video Player dialog.
When FireWire is selected as output, a number of format options appear
on the Format pop-up, allowing you to select between various video for-
mats and resolutions.
Replacing the audio in a video file
(Cubase only)
Cubase only: Cubase has a special function for replacing
the audio in a video file:
1. Pull down the File menu and select “Replace Audio in
Video File”.
2. In the file dialog that appears, locate and select the
video file on your hard disk and click Open.
A new file dialog appears.
3. Locate and select the audio file that you want to insert
into the video file and click Open.
The audio is added to the video file, replacing its current audio track
(if any).
• By combining the functions Extract Audio, Export Audio
Mixdown and Replace Audio in Video File, you can create
a completely new audio track for a video file.
Video playback preferences
In the Preferences (Event Display–Video page), there are
two options for video playback:
• Show Video Thumbnails.
When this is activated, thumbnail frames of the video contents are shown
in the track.
• Video Cache Size.
This determines how much memory is available for video thumbnails. If
you have long video clips and/or work with a large zoom factor (so that a
lot of frames are shown in the thumbnails), you may have to raise this
value.