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File handling
Importing audio
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• 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.
NOTE
Note that you can import sections of several audio CD tracks by selecting them in turn
and adjusting the selection. The start and end settings for each track are displayed in
the list.
• You can audition the selected audio CD track by clicking the Play button.
The track will be played back from selection start to selection end (or until you
click the Stop button).
• The Play from left Marker (down arrow) and Play to Right Marker (up arrow)
buttons allow you to audition the start and end of the selection only.
The down arrow button will play a short snippet beginning at the start of the
selection, while the up arrow button will play a snippet starting just before the
end of the selection.
• To open the CD drive, click on the Eject button at the top of the dialog.
Importing Audio from video files
While you can automatically extract the audio when importing a video file, it is also
possible to import the audio from a video file without importing the video itself:
PROCEDURE
1. Open the File menu, open the Import submenu and select “Audio from Video
File…”.
2. In the file dialog that opens, locate and select the video file and click Open.
The audio in the selected video file is extracted and converted to a Wave file in the
project’s Audio folder.
A new audio clip is created and added to the Pool. In the Project window, an event
referencing the audio file is inserted on the selected track at the project cursor
position. If no track was selected, a new track is created.
This works just like importing regular audio files.
RELATED LINKS
Extracting Audio From a Video File on page 595
Importing Video Files on page 588
Importing ReCycle files
ReCycle by Propellerhead Software is a program designed especially for working
with sampled loops. By “slicing” a loop and making separate samples of each beat,
ReCycle makes it possible to match the tempo of a loop and edit the loop as if it
was built of individual sounds. Cubase can import two file types created by
ReCycle:
• REX files (export file format of the first versions of ReCycle, extension “.rex”).