Like the top-of-the-line Cubase 4, Cubase Essential 4 also offers powerful options for underscoring images with music. It supports numerous standard formats (AVI, MPEG, QuickTime and many more) to ensure utmost compatibility with all types of video files.
You may opt to view video material in a freely scalable video window within Cubase Essential 4 or, in combination with the requisite video hardware, on an external monitor.
Cubase Essential 4 offers a special type of video track. Video files are as easy to insert as audio files, for example, via drag & drop. You can view the video’s individual frames directly in the track as thumbnails, which tremendously facilitates composing soundtracks with image-by-image precision.