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Help please! How to set timeline at different TC than 00:00:00:00?

JellyJonas

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Dear fellow S1 users, I'm quite new to S1 having switched from Cubase Pro just a few months ago. I mainly do film and TV work so my support question is related to that and is the following;

How do I set the song timeline start at a different time code than 00:00:00:00? And before someone says "you can set song start in the song setup" I would like to say that all this does (at least in my experience) is to add a marker at the chosen TC (or frames in the case of S1).

Here's a scenario to hopefully explain better:

Sometimes I have a scene from a movie that I need to score. This is just a single scene and there's a timecode embedded in it which I can import into my Videoplayer (using VideoSync 6) and it will line up the scene to match the embedded TC.
Now, I might have more than an hour of empty timeline before the scene I'm supposed to work on starts. In Cubase/Nuendo/Logic/Protools you can delete/alter the timeline or set your zero bar to be a different TC than zero so your timeline starts at the same point as your scene's embedded TC meaning you don't have to scroll through an hour of empty timeline.

How do I achieve this in S1?


Best,
Jonas
 
Hey Jonas, welcome to the forum!

Yes, you can do this very easily via Song -> Set Frames at Cursor or Set Time Offset at Cursor.

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If you like, check out my tutorial database. There are about 40 videos about film scoring:

 
@Lukas, a bit of a follow up question here:

How do you keep S1 synced to an external TC? Is Frames the equivalent of TC in Studio One? I ask because I keep getting thrown slightly out of sync when playing back (S1 TC doesn't match VideoSync TC after a few seconds of playback). I have matched the frame rate of the video and everything seems in order. If I scroll through using nudge frames then I stay in sync but the moment I hit play then I get out of sync.

How do you keep S1 in sync with external players?

Promise to donate monthly for all the help!

Best,
Jonas
 
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