There are various ways of using and calculating Timings in your Episode. Timings can either be entered manually, calculated automatically, or both by overwriting a calculated value.

Before going into detail on how you can manually enter Timings, as well as how to overwrite Timings in Cuez, it is important to know how Cuez can calculate certain Timings for you automatically.

Text Blocks can be configured to have their text be included in the Timings, meaning Cuez can automatically show how long it would take to read the text of that Text Block, and show that value as the Block's Estimated Duration.

Cue Blocks can be configured to have a Media field that can be included in the Timings, meaning Cuez can automatically show how long the attached media (audio, video) would be and show that value as the Block's Estimated Duration.

The Estimated Duration of an Item is calculated automatically as the total of the Estimated Durations of all underlying Text and Cue Blocks that make up the Item.

The Estimated Duration of a Part is calculated automatically as the total of the Estimated Durations of all underlying Items that make up the Part.

The Front Time shows the estimated start time of each Part, Item or Block, and is based on the Episode's On Air Time plus the Estimated Duration of the previous Part, Item or Block.

The End Time shows the estimated end time of each Part, Item or Block, and is based on the Front Time plus the Estimated Duration of the Part, Item or Block.

The Back time shows the time we should start a Part, Item or Block if we want to end our show on time, based on the (Episode) Off Air Time.

As mentioned above, Cuez can automatically calculate the Estimated Duration of Parts, Items and Blocks, but you can always overwrite these values with your own custom values. Simply select the calculated time and overwrite it with your new value.
If you don't have Blocks (or Block fields rather) configured to be included in the automatic calculations, you can always manually enter an Estimated Duration by clicking in the empty Est. Duration cell for that Block and entering your own value.

When the Estimated Duration of a Block is overwritten or entered manually, the Estimated Duration for the 'parent' Item and Part will update accordingly.

When the Estimated Duration of an Item is overwritten, the Estimated Duration for the 'parent' Part will update accordingly. This does not affect the underlying Block durations, but will grey out the Block's Estimated Durations as these will no longer have any effect on the Item or Part Timing.

The Estimated Duration for Parts can also be overwritten. This does not affect the underlying Item or Block durations, but will grey out all the Item and Block Estimated Durations as these will no longer have any effect on the Part timing.

See How can I overwrite Front times? to find out how you can overwrite Front times to set clear hit times for certain Items, based on the Episode's On Air time.

See How can I overwrite Back times? to find out how you can overwrite Back times to set clear hit times for certain Items, based on the Episode's Off Air time.

See How can I use the Part timer? to find out how you can make use of the Part timer in your Episodes.

When an automatically calculated Timing was manually overwritten, meaning that it is now shown in blue, you can easily reset the value back to the original if needed. To do so, click the arrow icon next to the overwritten value and select to reset.

See What do the different Timing colors mean? to find out about the different colors your timings can have and what each of them means.