Instruction Manual

169
The Now Time and How to Use It
Controlling Playback
The hours-minutes-seconds-frames format is commonly referred to as the
SMPTE time. SMPTE is the acronym for the Society of Motion Picture and
Television Engineers. In this format, time is measured in hours, minutes,
seconds, and frames. It’s not necessary for a project to begin at time zero in
this format—any time can be used to represent the start of a project. If you
are synchronizing SONAR with an external device whose start time is not 0,
you must offset SONAR to match the external device’s start time. For more
information, see the online help topic Synchronizing Your Gear
Here are some examples of times expressed in this format (assuming that
zero is the start time):
SONAR provides many ways to set the Now time. Here are just a few:
To Change the Now Time
• Click the desired time on Time Ruler in the Track view, Piano Roll view,
or Staff view
• In the Navigator pane, click anywhere in the view while holding down
the Ctrl key to change the Now Time to that location
• Click on the Now time in the Large Transport toolbar, enter the desired
time, and press Enter
• Choose Go-Time or press F5, enter the desired time, and click OK
• Click on an event in the Event List view
You can also set the Now time by right-clicking in the Clips pane if you
enable the Right Click Sets Now option in the Track View Properties dialog.
Right-click a an empty area of the Clips pane, and select View Options
from the menu that appears to open the Clip View Properties dialog.
Time... What it means...
00:00:00:00 The beginning of the project
00:05:10:00 Five minutes and ten seconds from the
beginning of the project
01:30:00:00 One hour and thirty minutes into the
project
00:00:00:05 Five frames into the project