Hi, is there a way to show the total duration of the the currently selected events on a given track in the “length” field in the info bar? I’m a bit surprised that the field does not seem to be able to add up the durations yet. It would be a great Feature to have for those of us who need to cut to a certain time. For example, a commercial or sync project where the total must be exactly a certain number of seconds. I hope there’s a way to do this that I may have overlooked… but for now, I’m tagging this as a Feature Request to Steinberg.
Currently, only the length of the first selected event is displayed, not the total. If the events are combined into a part, at least the length of the part is displayed.
I only know of two ways to display the length of a chosen section. The first is to make a selection using the Range Selection tool. The selection length will be displayed in the Info Bar.
The second way is to create a Cycle Marker and open the Markers Window.
There is a good reason the Info Bar does not show the total length of selected Parts. You can alter the length of all selected parts from there. You can even make all selected parts the same length by entering a value and pressing Ctrl + Enter.
Thank you to both of you for confirming that what I’m looking for is not currently implemented and for providing workarounds. For fine-tuning the precise length of 3 events (as an example) to an exact total duration required, it would still be better if Cubase implements this feature so that I can see realtime the total length as I top/tail the various segments that make up the comped “part”.
In the top toolbar there is an option “locator range duration”
activate it with Setup Toolbar
My use is:
-Make selection
-Press P = locators to selection
-Readout total length
Thank you as well for this other option. However, it remains that the very specific nature of my Feature Request is to make the “Length” field equally dynamic whether multiple events or single events are selected. Trimming the edge of any in the selected combo of events would show the length field value getting smaller.