User Guide

FILE FORMATS AND ATTRIBUTES
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2. Use the defaults or click the New button to change the Sample Rate, Sample Size
or number of channels of the source file.
3. Check the Monitor box and play the clip to be encoded. Check for clipping.
You want the levels to be mostly in the green area, a little in the yellow and
only occasionally in the red. If Sound Forge XP displays a red Clip warning
above the Monitor, you should:
4. Stop the input source.
5. Click the Reset button.
6. Lower the volume of the input source either by turning down the output
of your sound source or by turning down the input volume on your sound
card’s mixer window. In general, you don’t want any of your levels too high
or too low.
7. Check the levels again. It is better to be conservative with the starting levels.
8. Click the Record button to re-record.
9. When the file is recorded completely or when you click the Stop button, a
graphical display of the wave file appears.
10.Click the Close button to close the Record dialog.
PREPARING A SOUND FILE FOR REALAUDIO ENCODING
When you have finished recording a file, it is recommended that you
normalize and compress the file before saving it in RealAudio format.
Normalize
When you have finished recording a new file or opening pre-existing files, it
is recommended that you perform the following processes on the file before
saving the file in a RealAudio format.
Sound Forge allows you to save preset settings for each of these processes.
So once you set them up the first time, you can always use the same
settings.
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