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Editing tempo and signature
The Time Warp tool (Cubase only)
3. Make sure that the correct tracks are set to linear time base or musical time base,
respectively.
In our example, we want the video track and the audio track with a commentary
voice-over to be linear time-based (as well as the marker track, if used). All other
tracks should be set to musical time base. You change this by clicking the time
base button in the track list or Inspector.
4. Set up the Grid Type pop-up menu as desired.
When you click with the Time Warp tool, it snaps to the selected grid. In this case,
you will find the musical cue at the start of bar 33, so we can set the grid to “Bar”.
• Note that this affects the snapping to the ruler (tempo grid) when you click! In
addition, the tool can be “magnetic” to events in the Project window when you
drag – for this, you need to activate the Snap function, open the Snap Type pop-
up menu, and select “Events”.
In our example, this would be useful if you created a marker at the desired position
in the video – when you drag the grid (see below), it will snap to the marker.
5. Click on the Time Warp button and click again to open a pop-up menu.
6. Select the “Warp Grid (musical events follow)” mode.
7. Click in the event display at the start of bar 33 and drag to the desired position in
the video.
As mentioned above, this can mean dragging to a position indicated by the
thumbnails on the video track, to a marker on the marker track or to a time position
on an additional ruler track (Cubase only).
When you drag, the ruler is scaled – and the music tracks will follow.
8. Release the mouse button.
If you look in the ruler at the beginning of the project, you will see that the first (and
only) tempo event has been adjusted.
9. Try playing back.
The musical cue should now happen at the correct position in the video.
Musical time base selected
Linear time base selected