Video Preferences |
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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.
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:
8 bits always: Sound Forge will always decompress the video to 8 bits per pixel (256 color).
Best for display: Sound Forge will decompress the video to the best format that matches your system's color capabilities.
Full decompress always: Sound Forge will always decompress the video to its original bit depth when displaying. This is useful if you want to ensure that the video frames you see contain all the color information stored in the file. Also, if you want to paste frames to the clipboard, this setting ensures maximum resolution.
Select the Allow hardware scaling during decompression check box if you want to allow video frames to be scaled to a different size.
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.
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.
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.
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.