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The Pool
• 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).
• 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.
Using drag and drop
When using drag and drop to insert clips into the Project
window, please note the following:
• Snap is taken into account if activated.
• While you drag the clip in the Project window, its posi-
tion is indicated by a marker line and a numerical position
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 268 for in-
formation 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 will not lose track of the clip
the next time you open the project. See
“About miss-
ing files” on page 305 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).
Snap point