User guide

Chapter 5 Navigating Your Project 121
Customizing the Bar, SMPTE, and Tempo Display
You can customize the Bar, SMPTE, and Tempo display in the Display preferences.
To customize the Bar, SMPTE, or Tempo display:
1 Open the General Display preferences by doing one of the following:
 Choose Logic Express > Preferences > Display (or use the Open Display Preferences
key command).
 Click the Preferences Toolbar button, then choose Display from the menu.
2 Choose one of the following settings in the Clock Format menu:
 Clock Format 1 1 1 1
 Clock Format 1. 1. 1. 1
 Clock Format 1 1 1 0
 Clock Format 1. 1. 1. 0
 Clock Format 1 1. _ 1
 Clock Format 1. 1. _ 1
 Clock Format 1 1. _ 0
 Clock Format 1. 1. _ 0
3 Choose one of the following settings in the Display SMPTE menu:
 With Bits: Subframes (SMPTE bits 0 to 79) are shown.
 Without Bits: Subframes are not shown.
 With Quarter Frames: Quarter frames are shown.
 As Feet Frames, 35 mm film: The display is displayed in feet and frames, for 35 mm
film.
 As Feet Frames, 16 mm film: The display is displayed in feet and frames, for 16 mm
film.
 With Milliseconds: The frame fractions are displayed in milliseconds instead of SMPTE
bits (also called subframes). Don’t forget that this value is dependent on the frame
rate: at 25 fps, a frame is 40 milliseconds long, at 30 fps, approximately 33 ms.
 With Samples: Frame fractions are shown as sample values.
 With Frames and Samples: Both fractional frame and sample values are shown.