How to set a new MEASURE NUMBER in Logic

Hi guys,

I can't find this in the manual so hopefully you can help.

I am trying to SET a measure number 1 in the MIDDLE of my project.

What I have going on is this: I am trying to score to a video.. The Video quicktime that I was given is LONGER than it needs to be at the head. Like there's an extra minute or so of material before the part of the video at which the director needs music.

How can I set measure 1 to begin where I want to? I don't want to use the beat map function. I have the beat set at 116.

I want to make BAR POSITION 11 4 2 1 to be: 1 1 1 1


Is this possible? Just FYI — when I set the SMPTE for the video to start bar 1 1 1 1, the video doesn't seem to comply. It still butts the front end of the video to 1 1 1 1 no matter what I do (such that the timecode burn-in does not match Logic's SMPTE.)

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Apr 1, 2011 4:59 PM

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Apr 1, 2011 6:32 PM in response to zipperplug

Go to Project Settings>Synchronisation>General

There you have two separate windows:

Bar Position ... plays at SMPTE ....

Bar Position .... displays as SMPTE

Experiment with the offset here to get what you want.

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There is also a separate Bar Offset if you are trying to get the Score Editor to display bars differently from the usual bar 1 at 00 position.. but this is only for purposes of what a score will look like

HTH

MS
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Apr 1, 2011 6:36 PM in response to musicspirit

Thanks for the quick reply - that's what I've been doing - but that still doesn't solve my problem. I basically want "X" number of "negative numbered" measures and BAR 1 1 1 1 will start like 11 measures into my project for example.

I found a workaround, which was to snip the video in Final Cut Pro before bringing it into Logic but I can't believe there isn't a better solution.

Literally every forum out there and every manual - if you type in "measures" or "measure numbering" there is no info.
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