+<section>
+<title>Timing</title>
+
+<para>
+The timing tab contains settings related to the timing of your
+content, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-timing-tab-detail"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-timing-tab-detail">
+ <title>Timing settings tab</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/timing-tab&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+Most of the timing tab's entries are <emphasis>time-codes</emphasis>.
+These are expressed as four numbers, as shown in <xref
+linkend="fig-timecode"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-timecode">
+ <title>Timecode</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="diagrams/timecode&dia;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Position</guilabel> is the time at which this piece of
+content should start within the DCP. In most cases, this will be
+<code>0:0:0:0</code> to make the content start at the beginning of the
+DCP.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Full length</guilabel> is the length of the piece of
+content. This can only be set for still-image content: for video or
+sound content, it is fixed by the nature of the content file. If
+still-image content is being used you can set the length for which it
+should be displayed using this control.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Trim from start</guilabel> specifies the amount that should be trimmed from the start of the content.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Trim from end</guilabel> specifies the amount that should be trimmed from the end of the content.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Play length</guilabel> indicates how long this piece of
+content will be once the trims have been applied. This will be equal
+to the full length minus <guilabel>trim-from-start</guilabel> and minus <guilabel>trim-from-end</guilabel>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Video frame rate</guilabel> specifies the frame rate for still-image content.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Each timecode control has a <guilabel>Set</guilabel> which you should
+click when you have entered a new value for a timecode. The
+<guilabel>Set</guilabel> button will make DCP-o-matic take account of
+any changes to the corresponding timecode.
+</para>
+
+</section>