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url: https://docs.revis.io/admin/set-project-time-display-and-start-frame.md
description: >-
  Choose whether a project's player shows frames, timecode, or seconds by
  default, and which number its first frame gets.
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# Set a project's default time display and start frame

A project's **Player** settings decide how the web player first shows time for everyone in the project, as frames, timecode, or seconds, and which number the first frame of each item gets. Use them to match your studio's frame numbering, for example a first frame of 1001.

::: info Before you start

* **Who:** anyone who can edit the project: Owners, Admins, Members, Project Admins, and Contributors.
* **Where:** the web app. The settings apply to the web player.
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## Change the defaults

1. Open the project and select the gear next to its name at the top of the page (**Project settings**).
2. Select **Player**.
3. In **Global Time Display**, choose **Frames**, **Timecode**, or **Seconds**. The default is **Frames**.
4. In **Default Start Frame**, enter the number of the first frame, 1 or higher. The default is 1.
5. Select **Save Changes**.

## How the player uses them

* **Time display:** the player starts in the project's mode when you open one of its reviews. Anyone can still switch modes in the player for themselves; that doesn't change the project's default.
* **Start frame:** in **Frames**, the first frame shows your start frame, and later frames count up from it. **Timecode** starts at your start frame minus one, so the default of 1 starts at `00:00:00:00`. **Seconds** shows elapsed time and ignores the start frame.
* **PDFs:** pages always start at 1, whatever the start frame.