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Working with projects
The Project Setup dialog
General settings for the project are made in the Project
Setup dialog. This is opened by selecting “Project
Setup…” from the Project menu.
Ö If the “Run Setup on Create New Project” option is ac-
tivated in the Preferences dialog (General page), the Pro-
ject Setup dialog will open automatically when you create
a new project.
The following settings are available in the Project Setup
dialog:
Show Open
Options Dialog
The Open dialog opens on launch, allowing you to man-
ually locate and open the desired project.
Show Project
Assistant
The Project Assistant dialog opens on launch, allowing
you to open a recently opened project or to create a
new project from one of the templates (see
“Creating
new projects” on page 39).
Option Description
Setting Description
Author Here you can add a name that will be written as the project
author into the iXML chunk when exporting audio files with
the corresponding option activated (see
“AIFF files” on
page 300). The default setting for this can be set in the
Preferences dialog (General–Personalization page).
Company Here you can add a name that will be written as the com-
pany name into the iXML chunk when exporting audio files
with the corresponding option activated (see
“AIFF files”
on page 300). The default setting for this can be set in the
Preferences dialog (General–Personalization page).
Start The start time of the project. Allows you to have the project
start at another time than zero. Also used for setting the
sync start position when synchronizing Cubase to external
devices (see the chapter
“Synchronization” on page 303).
The format of this value is always in timecode. When you
change this setting you will be asked whether you want to
keep the project content at its timecode positions. “Yes”
means that all events will stay at their original timecode po
-
sitions – i. e. they will be moved in relation to the start of the
project. “No” means that all events keep their position rela
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tive to the project start.
Length The length of the project.
Frame Rate This setting determines both the timecode standard and
frame rate for the project, see the section
“Timecode
standards” on page 304. The frame rate of a video file
used in a project should match the frame rate set for a
project. The “Get From Video” button allows you to set
the project frame rate to the frame rate of an imported
video file, see the section
“Adopting the video frame rate”
on page 319. When synchronizing Cubase to an external
device, make sure that this setting corresponds to the
frame rate of any incoming timecode. However, there
might be situations where perfect synchronization does
not matter to you and you do not want to change the proj
-
ect frame rate. In this case, the frame rate mismatch will
be indicated on the Transport panel in the Sync section.
Display Format This is the global display format used for all rulers and po-
sition displays in the program, except ruler tracks (see
“Ruler tracks” on page 32). However, you can make inde-
pendent display format selections for the individual rulers
and displays if you like.
For descriptions of the different display format options,
see
“The ruler” on page 34.
Display Offset Offsets the time positions displayed in the ruler, etc., al-
lowing you to compensate for the Start position setting.
Typically, if you synchronize Cubase to an external source
starting at a frame other than zero, you set the Start posi
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tion to this value. However, if you still want the display in
Cubase to start at zero, set the Display Offset to the
same value.