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The Pool
Toolbar overview
The info line
Click the “Show Info” button on the toolbar to show or
hide the info line at the bottom of the Pool window. It
shows the following information:
How clips and regions are displayed in the
Pool
• Audio clips are represented by a waveform icon followed by
the clip name.
• Audio regions are represented by a region icon followed by
the region name.
• Video clips are represented by a camera icon followed by the
clip name.
The Pool window columns
Various information about the clips and regions can be
viewed in the Pool window columns. The columns contain
the following information:
Open/Close all
Folders
View/Attributes
Pop-up
Hide/show
info line
Import Button
Project Folder Path
Pool Record Folder Path
Play and Loop buttons,
audition volume control
Search Button
Number of audio
files in the Pool
Number of files in the Pool that are not
in the project folder (e.g. video files)
Total size of all audio
files in the Pool
Number of audio
files in use
Column Description
Media This column contains the Audio, Video and Trash folders. If
the folders are opened, the clip or region names are shown
and can be edited. This column is always shown.
Used This column displays the number of times a clip is used in
the project. If a column row is empty, the corresponding
clip is not used.
Status This column displays various icons that relate to the cur-
rent Pool and clip status. See “About the Status column
symbols” on page 273 for a description of the icons.
Straighten up The checkbox in this column allows you to activate or de-
activate Straighten up. If the Tempo column (see below)
displays “???”, you have to enter the correct tempo be-
fore you can activate Straighten up.
Tempo This shows the tempo of audio files for which a tempo
has been set. If no tempo has been specified, the column
displays “???”.
Sign. This is the time signature, e.g. “4/4”.
Key This is the root key, if one was specified for the file.
Info This column shows the following information for audio
clips: The sample rate, bit resolution, number of channels
and the length in seconds. For regions, it displays start
and end times in frames, and for video clips the frame
rate, number of frames, and length in seconds.
Type This column shows the file format of the clip.
Date This column shows the date when the clip was created.
Origin Time This column shows the original start position where a clip
was recorded in the project. As this value can be used as
a basis for the option “Insert into Project” in the Media or
context menu (and other functions), you can change it if
the Origin Time value is independent (i.e. not for regions).
This can either be done by editing the value in the col-
umn, or by selecting the corresponding clip in the Pool,
moving the project cursor to the new desired position
and selecting “Update Origin” from the Audio menu.
Image This column displays waveform images of audio clips or
regions.
Path This column shows the path to the location of a clip on
the hard disk.
Reel Name If you have imported an OMF file (see “Exporting and im-
porting OMF files (Cubase only)” on page 457), they may
include this attribute, in which case it is shown in this col-
umn. The Reel Name describes the “physical” reel or
tape from which the media was originally captured.