User Manual

TIME FORMATS AND DISPLAY
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Customizing the time format display
Click the Details triangle to further customize
which time formats are displayed in various areas
of Digital Performer. You can specify certain time
formats as needed.
Figure 8-6: Customizing the time format display.
As soon as you make any changes in the Details
area, a new custom time display setup is added to
the Custom menu. You can create as many custom
setups as you like. Use the Edit Time Formats
command in the Custom menu to rename,
duplicate and delete custom time format setups.
Saving time format settings with the project
By default, time format settings are global: they
control the display of any project that you open.
However, there are several commands in the time
Formats window mini-menu that allow you to
apply time format settings to the current project.
Figure 8-7: Use the Time Formats window mini-menu commands to
apply time format settings to the current project.
The Copy Current Time Format to Project
command saves the current Time Format settings
with the current project. When you later reopen the
project, these saved settings will be used instead of
the current global Time Format settings.
The Ignore All Project Time Formats command is
checkable. When enabled, it temporarily overrides
saved time format settings, if any. For example, if
you receive projects from colleagues that have
project time format settings saved in them, you can
temporarily override them and use your own
global Time Format settings by checking this menu
item. When this menu item is unchecked, the
project always uses its saved time format settings, if
any.
To use customized time format settings that you
have copied to a project, select the Project option
(below Custom in Figure 8-6). The other options
(Measures, Frames, Real time, Samples and
Custom) are global (not project specific).
Time format keyboard shortcuts
There are a several keyboard shortcuts for
choosing the global time format. To locate them,
search in the Commands window for one of their