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File handling
Importing audio
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1. Play
2. Stop
3. Play from Left Marker
4. Play to Right Marker
5. Start of selection handle
6. End of selection handle
To import one or more tracks, proceed as follows:
PROCEDURE
1. If you have more than one CD drive, select the correct one from the Drive pop-up menu
at the top left.
On opening the CD, the program tries to retrieve the track names from CDDB (a CD
database). If no connection to CDDB can be established or the CD track names are not
found, you can manually change the generic track name in the Default Name field.
2. Windows only: Activate the “Secure Mode” option if you want to use a Secure Read
mode.
Use this if you encounter problems when trying to import an audio CD. Error checking
and correction will be done during the process. Note that this mode will take more
time.
3. In the Windows version, select the data transfer speed from the Speed pop-up menu.
While you normally want to use the fastest possible speed, you may have to select a
slower speed for flawless audio extraction.
4. Activate the Copy checkbox for every audio file you want to import.
You can also select a copy section for every file, see below.
5. Click on the Copy button to create 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 OS) in the Audio folder
of the current project. To change the folder, click Destination Folder and select a
different folder from the dialog. During copying, the Copy button is labeled “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 insert 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:
Column Description
Copy Activate the checkbox in this column for
the track you want to copy/import. To
activate more than one checkbox, click
and drag over the checkboxes (or press
Ctrl/Cmd or Shift and click).
# This is the track number.