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File handling
5. Click on Copy to generate a local copy of the audio
file(s) or section(s).
The copied files are listed at the bottom of the dialog. By default, imported
audio CD tracks will be stored as Wave files (Windows) or AIFF files (Mac)
in the Audio folder of the current project. To change the folder, click Folder
and select another one from the dialog. During copying, the button is la-
beled “Stop”; click it to stop the process.
6. Click OK to import the copied audio files into the
project, or click Cancel to stop the import and discard the
copied files.
• If you import more than one audio file into project tracks,
a dialog opens in which you have to choose whether to in-
sert the tracks on one track or on different ones.
The new track(s) are displayed in the Project window. New audio clips
are created and added to the Pool.
The columns in the “Import from Audio CD” dialog have
the following functionality:
By default, the complete tracks are selected.
• If you want to copy and import a section of an audio CD
track only, select the track in the list and specify the start
and end of the selection to be copied by dragging the
handles in the copy selection ruler.
Use the start and end audition buttons to fine tune the selection bound-
aries.
Ö Note that you can import sections of several audio CD
tracks by selecting them in turn and adjusting the selec-
tion. The start and end settings for each track will be dis-
played in the list.
• You can audition the selected audio CD track by click-
ing the Play button.
The track will be played back from selection start to selection end (or un-
til you click the Stop button).
• The arrow up/down buttons allow you to audition the
start and end of the selection only.
The arrow down button will play a short snippet beginning at the start of
the selection, while the arrow up button will play a snippet starting just
before the end of the selection.
• In case no connection to CDDB could be established or
no CD track names were found, you can change the ge-
neric audio file name in the Default Name field.
The imported audio files be will be named accordingly, i.e. <default
name> 01 etc.
Ö Note that if there is a track name for a specific audio
CD track in the list, the corresponding audio file will use
that name instead.
• To open the CD drive, click on the Eject button at the
top of the dialog.
Column Description
Copy Activate the checkbox in this column for the track you
want to copy/import. To activate more than one check-
box, click and drag over the checkboxes (or press [Ctrl]/
[Command] or [Shift] and click).
# Number of track.
CD Track When you import an audio CD track, the file will be
named according to the name in this column. The names
are pulled automatically from CDDB, if possible. You can
rename a track by clicking in the Track column and typing
a new name. You can also apply a generic name to all au-
dio CD tracks, if no name was available in CDDB.
Length The length of the audio CD track in minutes and seconds.
Size The file size of the audio CD track in MegaBytes.
Copy Start You can copy a section of a track if you like. This indi-
cates the start of the section to be copied in the track. By
default, this is set to the start of the track (0.000) but you
can adjust this on the copy selection ruler (see below).
Copy End Indicates the end of the section to be copied in the track.
By default, this is set to the end of the track but you can
adjust this on the copy selection ruler (see below).
Play
Stop
Play start of selection
Play end of selection
Start of selection handle
End of selection handle