Video Preferences

Options Menu:
Preferences

Use the Video tab in the Preferences dialog to specify preferences for displaying video. To display this tab, choose Preferences from the Options menu and click the Video tab.

What do you want to do?

Specify a video decompression mode

From the Video decompression mode drop-down list, select the color resolution that will be used by Sound Forge when it decompresses video frames before displaying. Note that when a high bit-depth is used, the performance demands on your system are increased. The available modes are:

Configure hardware scaling of video frames

  1. Select the Allow hardware scaling during decompression check box if you want to allow video frames to be scaled to a different size.

  2. In the Only scale frames larger than boxes, specify a Height and Width. Video frames that are this size or smaller will not be scaled.

  3. In the Attempt to scale during decompression to boxes, specify a Height and Width. Video frames that are larger than the Only scale frames larger than setting will be scaled to this size.

Disable scanning for external monitors

Select the Disable scan for External Monitor support check box if you do not want Sound Forge to look for an external video monitor every time an AVI file is opened. If you do not have an external monitor, selecting this check box will cause AVI files to open more quickly.

Adjust a synchronization offset

If your audio is not synchronized with your external monitor, you can configure an offset for your hardware.

Drag the External monitor sync offset (frames) slider to synchronize audio and video.

This setting affects synchronization for previewing on an external monitor. Audio and video synchronization in your file is unaffected.