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BASIC EDITING TECHNIQUES CHP. 3
Deleting command markers
1.
Place the mouse pointer on the command marker. The pointer changes to a hand icon ( ).
2. Right-click to display a shortcut menu.
3. From the shortcut menu, choose Delete. The command marker is removed from your project.
Working with CD layout markers
Markers on the CD layout bar indicate the locations of tracks and indices in an audio CD layout project.
These markers are discussed in a later chapter. For more information, see Understanding tracks and indices on
page 247.
Using an external audio editing program
Vegas is a nondestructive editing environment, which means that the original source files remain unchanged
by any editing done in Vegas. Destructive (constructive) edits that modify the actual source media file may
be done in a separate application such as Sonic Foundry’s Sound Forge®. By setting up a separate audio
editor, you can quickly access the program from Vegas via the
Tools menu or by pressing .
Setting up an audio editing program
If you already have Sound Forge loaded on your computer when you installed Vegas, the installation should
have detected it and made it your default audio editing program. However, if you do not have Sound Forge or
want to specify a different audio editor, you may do so in the Preferences dialog.
1. From the Options menu, choose Preferences. The
Preferences dialog appears.
2. In the Preferences dialog, click the Audio tab.
3. Click the Browse button to the right of the Preferred
audio editor
box. The Preferred Audio Editor dialog
appears.
4. From this dialog, navigate to the application to use for
editing audio files.
5. Select the application’s executable icon (.exe) and
click
Open to set the application as your default audio
editor.
The application’s path displays in the
Preferred audio
editor
box.
Ctrl +E