Display Preferences

Options Menu:
Preferences

Use the Display tab in the Preferences dialog to specify options for adjusting the appearance of the Sound Forge window. To display this tab, choose Preferences from the Options menu and click the Display tab.

What do you want to do?

Change the default zoom ratio

Choose a zoom ratio from the Normal zoom ratio drop-down list to specify the default horizontal magnification. This magnification level is used when you load a sound file, create a new window, or use the Zoom Normal command.

High values show more data, and small values show more detail.

Change the height of the waveform

Drag the Default sound file window height slider to specify the default data window height for a sound file. This magnification level is used when you load a sound file or create a new window.

Change the size of the video strip

Drag the Default video strip height slider to specify the default height of the video strip when you open an AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) file.

Change the default colors of screen items

The color preferences section allows you set a custom color for a variety of graphics within Sound Forge. Each graphic has a default color or you can set a custom color by checking the Custom box and setting the component Red, Green, and Blue of each color.

For each mode of opening sound files, Normal, Direct, and Read Only, you can assign a different color for data window graphics.

  1. Choose a screen element from the Color preference for drop-down list.

  2. Set the color of the selected item:

  1. Click the OK button.

Item

Description

Normal: Data Left

Specifies the color used to draw left-channel or mono wave data in a normally opened data window.

Normal: Data Left Selected

Specifies the color used to draw selected left-channel or mono wave data in a normally opened data window.

Normal: Data Right

Specifies the color used to draw right-channel wave data in a normally opened data window.

Normal: Data Right Selected

Specifies the color used to draw selected right-channel wave data in a normally opened data window.

Normal: Window Background

Specifies the color used to draw the background of a normally opened data window.

Normal: Selected Background

Specifies the color used to draw the background of selected data in a normally opened data window.

Normal: Center Line

Specifies the color used to draw the center line of the wave axis in a normally opened data window.

Normal: -6.0 dB Line

Specifies the color used to draw the line at half volume for the wave axis in a normally opened data window.

Normal: Play Cursor

Specifies the color of the cursor which is drawn while playing a file in a normally opened data window.

Direct: Data Left

Specifies the color used to draw left-channel or mono wave data in a direct-mode data window.

Direct: Data Left Selected

Specifies the color used to draw selected left-channel or mono wave data in a direct-mode data window.

Direct: Data Right

Specifies the color used to draw right-channel wave data in a direct-mode data window.

Direct: Data Right Selected

Specifies the color used to draw selected right-channel wave data in a direct-mode data window.

Direct: Window Background

Specifies the color used to draw the background of a direct-mode data window.

Direct: Selected Background

Specifies the color used to draw the background of selected data in a direct-mode data window.

Direct: Center Line

Specifies the color used to draw the center line of the wave axis in a direct-mode data window.

Direct: -6.0 dB Line

Specifies the color used to draw the line at half volume for the wave axis in a direct-mode data window.

Direct: Play Cursor

Specifies the color of the cursor which is drawn while playing a file in a direct-mode data window.

Read Only: Data Left

Specifies the color used to draw left-channel or mono wave data in a read-only data window.

Read Only: Data Left Selected

Specifies the color used to draw selected left-channel or mono wave data in a read-only data window.

Read Only: Data Right

Specifies the color used to draw right-channel wave data in a read-only data window.

Read Only: Data Right Selected

Specifies the color used to draw selected right-channel wave data in a read-only data window.

Read Only: Window Background

Specifies the color used to draw the background of a read-only data window.

Read Only: Selected Background

Specifies the color used to draw the background of selected data in a read-only data window.

Read Only: Center Line

Specifies the color used to draw the center line of the wave axis in a read-only data window.

Read Only: -6.0 dB Line

Specifies the color used to draw the line at half volume for the wave axis in a read-only data window.

Read Only: Play Cursor

Specifies the color of the cursor which is drawn while playing a file in a read-only data window.

Regions: Marker

Specifies the color used to display marker tags on the data window Time Ruler.

Regions: Section

Specifies the color used to display region tags on the data window Time Ruler.

Sample Loop: Sustaining

Specifies the color used to display sustaining loop tags on the data window Time Ruler.

Sample Loop: Release

Specifies the color used to display release loop tags on the data window Time Ruler.

Record Prepared

Specifies the color used in the Record dialog to indicate Record Prepared status.

Record Pre-roll

Specifies the color used in the Record dialog to indicate record pre-roll status.

Record Recording

Specifies the color used in the Record dialog to indicate recording status.

Graph Axis

Specifies the color used to display an axis in a graph such as in Paragraphic EQ.

Graph Fill

Specifies the color used to display a filled graph, such as in Paragraphic EQ.

Graph Fill Alternate

Specifies the color used when displaying multiple filled graphs such as in Multi-Band Dynamics.

Envelope Axis

Specifies the color used when displaying the axis of envelope controls.

Envelope Highlight

Specifies the color used when displaying a highlight in envelope controls.

Regions: Command Marker

Specifies the color used to display command marker tags in the data window Time Ruler.