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Video I/O Offset
The two preferences found in this section let you offset overall video playback up to 7 frames earlier than your audio playback, to account for situations where image processing applied to your video output is causing delays that make the video out of sync with your audio. For example, let’s say your video output is going through a video convertor that adds a 1 frame delay, and then connects to a video projector that adds another 1 frame of delay. You can set your Video Monitor Offset to 2 frames to compensate, so the audio/video sync is solid.
— Video Monitor Offset: This drop-down menu lets you choose an offset from 0 to 7 frames.
— Apply Offset during Jog and Shuttle: Turning this checkbox on ensures that the offset you choose is also applied when you use Jog and Shuttle to move through your program.
General Settings
The two preferences found in the General Settings section both let you customize the Loop Jog behavior that’s currently available only on the Fairlight page. Choosing Timeline > Loop Jog enables a brief sample preview to be heard while scrubbing the playhead through the Timeline. This can make it easier to recognize bits of dialog or music as you’re quickly scrubbing through tracks, in situations where you’re trying to locate specific lines or music cues. It also enables this brief sample preview to loop endlessly when you hold the playhead on a frame, so you can pause while scrubbing and hear (by default) the current 80 ms prior to the playhead as it loops. A pair of settings let you customize this behavior.
— Loop Jog Alignment: Three options let you choose whether you loop audio Pre the position of the playhead, Centered on the playhead, or Post the position of the playhead.
— Loop Jog Width: A field lets you choose how many milliseconds of audio to loop when Loop Jog is enabled. How many milliseconds of audio corresponds to one frame depends on the frame rate of the video. For example, at a frame rate of 25 fps, there are 1000/25 = 40 ms per frame, so the default value of 80 ms equals two frames of looping.
— Enable auto patching: Checking this box routes the first of your system audio inputs to the track that has “arm for record” on.
— Mixer follows selected track: Checking this box ensures that the selected track appears focused and left-most in the Mixer pane.
— Include mixer events in Undo history: Checking this box ensures that you can undo mixer events (such as edits to panning or track mute state).
Automation
The two preferences found in the Automation section let you customize the Glide Time between Automation events and whether or not Automation events are included when recalling a preset or when copying and pasting.
— Glide Time: Enter a value in milliseconds to customize the Glide Time for automation.
— Write on Preset or Clipboard Paste: Checking this box ensures that Automation events are written to the track when recalling a track preset or copying and pasting. Note that when enabled, the information written is still dependent on the status of what master automation is enabled or disabled. For example, if plugin automation is disabled, no plugin automation will be written.