Video Timeline and the Grid

As opposed to music that uses bars and beats, video and film use frames as a basic measuring block for editing.

In the time displays, video frames are displayed in SMPTE timecode where colons separate each division of time: hours, minutes, seconds, frames, and subframes:

The amount of frames per second depends on the frame rate of the video.

Film frames can be displayed as SMPTE numbers or in feet and frames, a traditional method used by film editors.

Nuendo also offers a user-definable frame rate for specialized frame rates.

Feet and frames are displayed in the Transport panel, in the Project window ruler, and in the Time Display.