Change Where Bars Start?

So I had posted a month or two ago about being able to move a video on the timeline and unfortunately it looks like it's just not gonna happen unless I convert videos to very specific formats before importing (something with X3's video engine). So I've accepted that and I'm working around it for now, HOWEVER I had an idea that could be an alternate way to solve my problem:
 
Is there a way to make the first bar of the project NOT start at 0:00?  You see the problem is if I'm scoring a video and I need the beat to start at exactly (I'm making up an arbitrary time here) 0:40... And if 0:40 doesn't line up with a bar x:00:000, then the beat is going to be off from the video. I could then just slide everything back from the nearest bar to 0:40 in the timeline, HOWEVER if I go to try to start adding more to that loop, it's not situated between bars evenly and it's going to be hard to keep adding to the track and looping new layers. Now of course later in the piece depending on the timing of the edit of the video things could change but at least if i can get the very first beat to start at the right spot, I can work around it from there.
 
Hopefully everything I'm saying makes sense :-) Any help would be appreciated as always.
 
David

I think for a lot of composers and projects that would work, but especially in the particular project I'm working on now, it is very much like a hip-hop beat that is required, so working between the 4/4 bars is best, I just need the first bar to start not at 0:00 because then there is no bar that hits right at the title of the video.

That's not bad actually. It's so less than ideal haha, but it could just work. I'm going to play around with that later today. Thanks.
 
And if anyone else has any ideas, keep em coming :-)

That's a pretty clever workaround even though it's a kludge, glad it worked for you. Agreed it would be nice to move videos on the timeline...

Let's all keep pushing them. It can't be THAT hard to implement :-) Seriously, Bar 1 to start at some point in time that isn't 0:00. Seems like such a smart feature to have.

MarioD

polarbear
Let's all keep pushing them. It can't be THAT hard to implement :-) Seriously, Bar 1 to start at some point in time that isn't 0:00. Seems like such a smart feature to have.

A BIG +1

Then let's all go to the new Feature forum
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Features-Ideas-f76.aspx
 
and put in the request. You can then discuss how your idea to implement it would go and others vote on it, yes or no.
 
Pretty sweet!