Specifications

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AUDIO Audio is used in WATCHOUT in a way that’s very similar to moving images.
Simply bring the sound file into WATCHOUT and place its icon on the display
in the Stage window where you want the sound file to play.
◆ NOTE: Do not place the sound file’s icon so that it straddles multiple
displays, unless you specifically want the same sound file to play from
multiple display computers.
Audio File Formats WATCHOUT can generally play any sound file compatible with Windows
Media Player. However, the recommended sound file format is WAV. There’s
usually no reason to use a compressed sound file format, such as MP3, and the
additional decompression step adds unnecessary load. The size of uncom-
pressed sound files is usually not an issue with the kind of computers used to
play back WATCHOUT presentations.
Multi-Channel Audio WATCHOUT can play back multi-channel audio using a suitable sound card
(see page 18). Multi-channel sound files are saved as WAV files using the
“Wave Format Extensible” file format. Some applications capable of saving
multi-channel WAV files include Steinberg Nuendo, Digidesign ProTools and
Adobe Audition.
Free tools are also available for creating multi-channel WAV files from a
number of single-channel WAV files. For example the “CDP Multi-Channel
ToolKit”, found here:
http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~rwd/mctools.html
Audio waveform displayed
inside cue on timeline.