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The Pool
• External Files – the number of files in the Pool that do not re-
side in the project folder (e. g. video files)
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:
About the Status column symbols
The Status column can display various symbols that relate
to the clips status. The following symbols can be shown:
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
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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.
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 there is no entry in this column, the corre
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sponding 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 301 for a description of the icons.
Musical
Mode
The checkbox in this column allows you to activate or de-
activate Musical Mode. If the Tempo column (see below)
displays “???”, you have to enter the correct tempo be
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fore you can activate Musical Mode.
Tempo This shows the tempo of audio files, if available. 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 audio file was last
changed.
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 “Insert into Project” option 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
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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 525), it may in-
clude this attribute, which is then shown in this column.
The Reel Name describes the “physical” reel or tape from
which the media was originally captured.
Symbol Description
This indicates the current Pool Record folder (see
“Changing the Pool Record folder” on page 308).
This symbol is shown if a clip has been processed.
The question mark indicates that a clip is referenced in
the project but missing from the Pool (see
“About missing
files” on page 305).
This indicates that the clip file is external, i. e. located out-
side the current Audio folder for the project.
This indicates that the clip has been recorded in the cur-
rently open version of the project. This is useful for finding
recently recorded clips quickly.
The arrow indicates the sort
column and sort order.