Apple Logic Express 9 - Manual (Page 1216)

• Digital Cinema Desktop: Choose this option to preview your video on any available
display unit that is connected to an AGP graphics card. (Displays connected to a PCI
graphics card cannot be used by Digital Cinema Desktop.) If you have two computer
displays, one can be used to view the Logic Express interface, while the other can
be used as a dedicated video monitor. When you select this option, the Anamorphic
checkbox appears. In some rare cases (such as when a 4:3 video signal contains a
16:9 picture), Logic Express may not recognize the video format automatically. You
should select this checkbox if your video appears horizontally compressed or
stretched.
• FireWire: Choose this mode to output QuickTime movies from your project to a
FireWire device. (Your FireWire DV device must be connected at the time.) For
technical reasons, only QuickTime movies in DV format are supported.
• Video Format pop-up menu: When either the Digital Cinema Desktop or FireWire option
is chosen from the Video Output pop-up menu, the Video Format pop-up menu
becomes available.
• Digital Cinema Desktop offers three choices: Preview, Full Screen, and Raw.
• FireWire offers several PAL and NTSC format options, at different frame rates and
resolutions. Choose the most appropriate format for your project.
• Sound Output pop-up menu: Offers three choices:
• Mute: The audio track of the video file is disabled.
• System Sound: The audio track of the video is played through the System Sound
device (as defined in the Audio MIDI Setup utility).
• External Device: Choose this option to route the audio track of the video file to an
external device. In general, you would be most likely to use this option when FireWire
is selected in the Video Output pop-up menu.
• Movie Start field: You can enter the SMPTE offset value directly in the Movie Start field.
This is independent of the SMPTE offset for the project. This allows you to work from
bar one (1 1 1 1 in the Transport bar), even if the video time code—at a particular point
in the video—is several minutes into the movie file. Put simply, this makes your life
easier when creating a soundtrack for all, or part of, a movie file. You can fine-tune the
offset of internal and external video in Video preferences, which affect global projects.
(See
Video Preferences in Logic Express .)
• Movie Volume slider: Sets the level of the video file audio track.
• Follow Tempo checkbox: Select to make the QuickTime movie run at the chosen tempo
value (see Basis Tempo field below) until it receives a tempo change message from the
Tempo track.
• Basis Tempo field: Set a tempo value for the QuickTime movie.
1216 Chapter 42 Project Settings in Logic Express