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Creating a ruler offset
The ruler doesn’t necessarily need to start with zero at the far left side. You can enter an offset to change the orientation of the ruler
in a project. One use of this is to create a lead-in into a project. A five-second offset would mean that the ruler would start at -5
seconds and would be at 0 five seconds into the project.
1. Position the cursor at the desired location along the timeline.
2. Right-click the ruler and choose Set Time at Cursor from the shortcut menu. The current ruler value is highlighted.
3. Type a time value.
4. Press Enter to set the ruler’s time. The value that you enter at the cursor’s position affects the entire ruler.
SMPTE Film Sync (24 fps) Displays the ruler in hours:minutes:seconds:frames with a frame rate of 24 frames per
second. This frame rate matches the standard crystal-sync 16/33 mm film rate of 24
fps.
SMPTE EBU (25 fps, Video) Displays the ruler in hours:minutes:seconds:frames with a frame rate of 25 frames per
second. This is known as SMPTE EBU (European Broadcasting Union) because
European television systems run at 25 fps.
Use SMPTE 25 EBU format for PAL DV/D1 projects.
SMPTE Non-Drop (29.97 fps,
Video)
Displays the ruler in hours:minutes:seconds:frames with a frame rate of 29.97 frames
per second, which leads to a discrepancy between real (“wall clock”) time and the
SMPTE time, because there is no compensation in the counting system as there is in
Drop Frame.
Use SMPTE Non-Drop format for NTSC D1 projects that will be recorded on master
tapes striped with Non-Drop timecode.
SMPTE Drop (29.97 fps, Video) Displays the ruler in hours:minutes:seconds;frames with a frame rate of 29.97 fps to
match the frame rate used by NTSC television systems (North America, Japan).
Use SMPTE Drop Frame format for NTSC DV/D1 projects.
Both SMPTE Drop and SMPTE Non-Drop run at 29.97 fps. In both formats, the actual
frames are not discarded, but they are numbered differently. SMPTE Drop removes
certain frame numbers from the counting system to keep the SMPTE clock from
drifting from real (“wall clock”) time. The time is adjusted forward by two frames on
every minute boundary except 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50. For example, when SMPTE
Drop time increments from 00:00:59.29, the next value will be 00:01:00.02.
SMPTE 30 (30 fps, Audio) Displays the ruler in hours:minutes:seconds:frames with a frame rate of 30 frames per
second.
This rate is exactly 30 fps and is commonly used when synchronizing audio
applications such as multitrack recorders or MIDI sequencers. This format should not
be used when working with video.
Audio CD Time Displays the ruler in hours:minutes:seconds:frames with a frame rate of 75 frames per
second for creating Red Book CDs.
Note: You cannot create a ruler offset in an audio CD layout project.
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