User Guide

EDITING AND NAVIGATION
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STATUS FORMATS
By right-clicking on the Time Ruler and selection status fields on the playbar,
files can be set to different status formats. By changing the format, you can
coordinate sound files with other events measured in that format, or use a
timing base most familiar to you. Lengths and positions can be displayed in a
variety of formats including Samples, Time, Seconds, Frames, Measures and Beats, and
SMPTE.
SELECTING A STATUS FORMAT
To select a format, choose the Status Format command from the Options menu.
This shows the ten different formats available. Choosing one of these options
sets the status format for the current data window.
The available formats are:
Samples Number of samples
Time Hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds
Seconds Seconds and fractions thereof
Time & Frames Hours, minutes, seconds and frames as defined
by the Edit Frame Rate (Special Menu) command
Absolute Frames Frames and fractions thereof
Measures & Beats Measures, beats and quarters of a beat
SMPTE Non-Drop SMPTE at 30 or 29.97 frames per second (fps)
non-drop
SMPTE Drop SMPTE at 30 fps with drop frames
SMPTE EBU SMPTE at 25 fps
SMPTE Film Sync SMPTE at 24 fps
In this exercise, you will see how the status formats affect values in the status
display fields.
1. Using the TUTOR1 file, select Samples from Status Format under the Options
menu.
2. Now select all of the data in the TUTOR1 window. To do this, choose the
Select All command from the Edit menu.You can also double-click the left
mouse button anywhere in the waveform display of the data window.