User Guide

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USING MARKERS, REGIONS, AND THE PLAYLIST/CUTLIST CHP. 8
Creating new files from regions
Sound Forge allows you to quickly create a new file from each region in a file. Sound Forge names each
region by appending a numerical value to a user-specified prefix.
1. Open an audio file and create several regions in it.
2. From the Tools menu, choose Extract Regions. The Extract Regions dialog appears and all current regions
appear in the
Regions to extract pane.
3. Select the regions to be extracted.
4. If the path in the Destination folder box is not appropriate, click the Browse button and browse to the
desired destination folder.
5. Enter the desired prefix in the File name prefix box.
6. If desired, clear the Use Long File Names for destination file names check box and enter an appropriate
numeric value in the
Start file counter index box.
Clearing the Use Long File Names for destination file names
check box forces file names to conform to the 8.3 naming
convention.
7. Click Extract.
Using the playlist
Once you create regions, you can arrange them in the playlist. Unlike the Regions List, which displays its
contents in alphabetical or chronological order, the playlist displays and plays its regions in a user-specified
arrangement. In addition, you can rearrange and audition regions endlessly in the playlist without
performing a destructive edit when you save the file.
As with the Regions List, Sound Forge can save the playlist information as metadata in most file types. You
also have the option of saving the playlist to an external playlist file.
Extract Regions dialog