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Video
Setting the aspect ratio
Resizing the Video Player window by dragging its borders
may lead to a distorted image. To prevent this, you can set
an aspect ratio for video playback.
• From the Aspect Ratio submenu of the Video Player
context menu, select one of the following options:
Ö When the video is played back in fullscreen mode, the
aspect ratio of the video is always kept.
Scrubbing video
You can scrub video events, i. e. play them back forwards
or backwards at any speed. This is done by clicking in the
Video Player window and moving the mouse to the left or
to the right.
You can also use the Scrub controls on the Transport
panel or a jog wheel on a remote controller for scrubbing
video events, see the sections
“Playing back with the
shuttle speed control” on page 70 and “Project scrubbing
– the jog wheel” on page 71.
Editing video
Video clips are played back by events just as audio clips
are. You can use all the basic editing operations on video
events, just as with audio events. You can take a single
event and copy it many times for the creation of mix varia
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tions. A video event may also be trimmed using the event
handles to remove a countdown for instance. Furthermore,
you can edit video clips in the Pool (see the chapter
“The
Pool” on page 195).
It is not possible to fade or crossfade video events. Fur-
thermore, you cannot use the Draw, Glue, and Mute tools
with a video event.
Ö Windows only: If you find that you are unable to edit a
video file copied from a CD, this might be due to the fact
that files copied from CD are write-protected by default.
To remove the write-protection, in the Windows Explorer,
open the Properties dialog and deactivate the “Read-
Only” option.
Extracting audio from a video file
If a video file contains audio, the audio stream can be ex-
tracted. As always when importing audio material, a dialog
is displayed allowing you to select different import options
(see
“Audio file import options” on page 329).
There are several ways to extract audio from a video file:
• By activating the “Extract Audio From Video” option in
the Import Video dialog (see the section
“Importing video
files” on page 318).
• By using the “Audio from Video File” option on the Im-
port submenu of the File menu.
This will insert an audio event starting at the project cursor position on
the selected audio track. If no audio track is selected, a new one will be
created.
• By activating the “Extract Audio on Import Video File”
option in the Preferences dialog (Video page).
This will automatically extract the audio stream from any video file during
import.
Option Description
None The aspect ratio of the video is not kept when resizing the
window. The image is enlarged/reduced to occupy the
whole Video Player window.
Internal The Video Player window can be resized at will, but the as-
pect ratio of the video is kept and black borders are dis-
played around the video image to fill the window.
External The resizing of the Video Player window is limited accord-
ing to the aspect ratio of the video image, i. e. the video im-
age always fills the full window and its aspect ratio is kept.