The Status/Selection Toolbar

 

Use the Status/Selection toolbar to set the status format for display and to control selection snapping.

Button

Description

Sound Forge Pro showsamples The Status/Selection Toolbar

Samples: click to display the time ruler, cursor position, and selection in samples.

Sound Forge Pro showtime The Status/Selection Toolbar

Time: click to display the time ruler, cursor position, and selection in hours:minutes:seconds.seconds.

Sound Forge Pro showseconds The Status/Selection Toolbar

Seconds: click to display the time ruler, cursor position, and selection in seconds.

Sound Forge Pro showtimeframes The Status/Selection Toolbar

Time and Frames: click to display the time ruler, cursor position, and selection in hours:minutes:seconds.frames.

Sound Forge Pro showframes The Status/Selection Toolbar

Absolute Frames: click to display the time ruler, cursor position, and selection in absolute frames from the beginning of the file.

Sound Forge Pro measandbeats The Status/Selection Toolbar

Measures and Beats: click to display the time ruler, cursor position, and selection in measures:beats.quarter-beats.

Sound Forge Pro showsmptefilm The Status/Selection Toolbar

SMPTE Film Sync: click to display the time ruler, cursor position, and selection in hours:minutes:seconds:frames with a frame rate of 24 frames per second. This frame rate matches the standard crystal-sync 16/33 mm film rate of 24 fps.

Sound Forge Pro showsmpteebu The Status/Selection Toolbar

SMPTE EBU: click to display the ruler in hours:minutes:seconds:frames with a frame rate of 25 frames per second. This is known as SMPTE EBU (European Broadcasting Union) because European television systems run at 25 fps.

Use SMPTE 25 EBU format for PAL DV/D1 projects.

Sound Forge Pro showSMPTEnondrop The Status/Selection Toolbar

SMPTE Non-Drop: click to display the ruler in hours:minutes:seconds:frames with a frame rate of 29.97 frames per second, which leads to a discrepancy between real (“wall clock”) time and the SMPTE time, because there is no compensation in the counting system as there is in Drop Frame.

Use SMPTE Non-Drop format for NTSC D1 projects that will be recorded on master tapes striped with Non-Drop timecode.

Sound Forge Pro showSMPTEdrop The Status/Selection Toolbar

SMPTE Drop: click to display the ruler in hours:minutes:seconds;frames with a frame rate of 29.97 fps to match the frame rate used by NTSC television systems (North America, Japan).

Use SMPTE Drop Frame format for NTSC DV/D1 projects.

Both SMPTE Drop and SMPTE Non-Drop run at 29.97 fps. In both formats, the actual frames are not discarded, but they are numbered differently. SMPTE Drop removes certain frame numbers the counting system to keep the SMPTE clock from drifting from real (“wall clock”) time. The time is adjusted forward by two frames on every minute boundary except 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50. For example, when SMPTE Drop time increments from 00:00:59.29, the next value will be 00:01:00.02.

Sound Forge Pro showsmpte30 The Status/Selection Toolbar

SMPTE 30: click to display the ruler in hours:minutes:seconds:frames with a frame rate of 30 frames per second.

This rate is exactly 30 fps and is commonly used when synchronizing audio applications such as multitrack recorders or MIDI sequencers. This format should not be used when working with video.

Sound Forge Pro showcdtime The Status/Selection Toolbar

Audio CD Time: click to display the ruler in hours:minutes:seconds:frames with a frame rate of 75 frames per second for creating Red Book CDs.

If you want to display disc-at-once CD track numbers in the Time Display window, right-click the Time Display window and choose CD Track Position from the shortcut menu. In this mode, the Time Display will show track numbers and the running time for each track. Negative values indicate the pause time before a track:
Sound Forge Pro timedisplaycdtracks The Status/Selection Toolbar

Sound Forge Pro edittempo The Status/Selection Toolbar

Edit Tempo: click to display the Edit Tempo dialog.

The Status/Selection Toolbar