User manual

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The Pool
Operations
Ö Most of the Pool-related main menu functions are also
available on the Pool context menu (opened by right-click-
ing in the Pool window).
Renaming clips or regions in the Pool
To rename a clip or a region in the Pool, select it and click
on the existing name, type in a new name and press
[Return].
Ö In case of a clip, this will also rename the referred files
on disk!
Copying clips in the Pool
To make a duplicate clip, proceed as follows:
1. Select the clip you wish to copy.
2. Select “New Version” on the Media menu.
A new version of the clip appears in the same Pool folder, with the same
name but with a “version number” after it, to indicate that the new clip is a
duplicate. The first copy made of a clip will logically get the version number
“2” and so on. Regions within a clip are copied too, but keep their name.
Inserting clips into a project
By using menus
1. Select the clip(s) you want to insert into the project.
2. Pull down the Media menu and select an “Insert into
Project” option.
“At Cursor” will insert the clip(s) at the current project cursor position.
“At Origin” will insert the clip(s) at their Origin Time position(s).
• Note that the clip will be positioned so that its snap
point is aligned with the selected insert position.
You can also open the Sample Editor for a clip by double-clicking it, and
perform the insert operation from there. This way you can set the snap
point before inserting a clip.
3. The clip is inserted on the selected track or on a new
audio track.
If several tracks are selected, the clip will be inserted on the first selected
track.
By using drag and drop
You can use drag and drop to insert clips into the Project
window. You can also use drag and drop from the Sample
Editor for a clip by making a selection range and pressing
[Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging. Note:
• Snap is taken into account if activated.
• While you drag the clip in the Project window, its posi-
tion will be indicated by a marker line and a numerical po-
sition box.
Note that these indicate the position of the snap point in the clip. For ex-
ample, if you drop the clip at the position 10.00, this will be where the snap
point ends up. See “Adjusting the snap point” on page 241 for information
on how to set the snap point.
• If you position the clip in an empty area in the event dis-
play (i.e. below existing tracks), a new track is created for
the inserted event.
!
Renaming a clip in the Pool is much preferred to re-
naming it outside Cubase (for example on the com-
puter desktop). This way, Cubase already “knows”
about the change, and won’t lose track of the clip the
next time you open the project. See “About missing
files” on page 277 for details about lost files.
!
Copying a clip does not create a new file on disk, but
just a new edit version of the clip (referring to the
same original file).
Snap point