Video Player
The Video Player window is used for playing back video on your computer screen.
To open the Video Player window, open the Devices menu and select the “Video Player” option.
Setting the Window Size and Video Quality
To resize the Video Player window and/or change the playback quality of the video, select the appropriate option on the context menu of the Video Player window.
- Fullscreen Mode
The window is enlarged to occupy the whole (computer) screen. If you are working with more than one monitor, you can move the Video Player window to an extra monitor. Thus, you can work with Cubase on one monitor and let the video play back on another monitor. You can exit full screen mode via the window’s context menu or by pressing Esc on your computer keyboard.
- Quarter Size
The window size is reduced to a quarter of the actual size.
- Half Size
The window size is reduced to half the actual size.
- Actual Size
The window size corresponds to the size of the video.
- Double Size
The window is enlarged to twice the actual size.
- Video Quality
This submenu allows you to change the quality of the video image.
To resize the Video Player window, you can also drag the borders.
The higher the resolution, the more processing power is needed for playback. If you need to reduce the processor load, you can reduce the size of the Video Player window, or lower the value on the Video Quality submenu.
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:
- 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 aspect ratio of the video is kept and borders are displayed around the video image to fill the window.
- External
The resizing of the Video Player window is limited according to the aspect ratio of the video image, i. e. the video image always fills the full window and its aspect ratio is kept.
When the video is played back in full screen 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. 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 a jog wheel on a remote controller for scrubbing video events.