User manual

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The Pool
Sorting the Pool contents
You can sort the clips in the Pool by name, date etc. This
is done by clicking on the corresponding column heading.
Clicking again on the same heading switches between as-
cending and descending sort order.
Customizing the view
• You can specify which of the columns are shown or hid-
den by opening the View/Attributes pop-up menu on the
toolbar and selecting/deselecting items.
• You can rearrange the order of the columns by clicking
on a column heading and dragging the column to the left
or right.
The mouse pointer changes to a hand when you place it on the column
heading.
• The width of a column can also be adjusted by placing
the pointer between two column headers and dragging
left or right.
The pointer changes to a divider when you place it between two column
headers.
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 This will also rename the referenced files on disk!
Duplicating clips in the Pool
To duplicate a 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 get the version number “2”
and so on. Regions within a clip are copied too, but keep their name.
Inserting clips into a project
To insert a clip into a project, you can either use the Insert
commands on the Media menu or use drag and drop.
Using menu commands
Proceed as follows:
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).
The arrow indicates the sort
column and sort order.
!
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 will not lose track of the clip
the next time you open the project. See “About mis-
sing files” on page 266 for details about lost files.
!
Duplicating a clip does not create a new file on disk,
but a new edit version of the clip (referring to the
same audio file).