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Working with projects
The Project Setup dialog
Company Here you can add a name that will be written as the company name
into the iXML chunk when exporting audio files with the
corresponding option activated (see
“AIFF files” on page 645). 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 650). 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 positions –
i.
e. they will be moved in relation to the start of the project. “No”
means that all events keep their position relative 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 651.
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 673. 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 project
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 position
displays in the program, except ruler tracks (see
“Ruler tracks” on
page 46). However, you can make independent 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 50.
Display Offset Offsets the time positions displayed in the ruler, etc., allowing 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 position to this value. However, if you still want the
display in Cubase to start at zero, set the Display Offset to the same
value.
Bar Offset This works just like “Display Offset” described above, in that it offsets
the time positions in the ruler by a number of bars, allowing you to
compensate for the Start position setting. The difference is that Bar
Offset is only used when the “Bars+Beats” display format is selected
(see
“The ruler” on page 50).
Setting Description